Health

An internal medicine physician on staff at Western State is treating COVID-19 patients at the psychiatric hospital as long as they do not have respiratory issues that require a transfer to Jennie Stuart Medical Center.

Two of the patients who died were from Western State Hospital, the governor announced.

In another development, Quorum Health Corp., which owns a subsidiary that provides management services at Jennie Stuart, announced Tuesday it is filing for bankruptcy to reorganize its debt.

The county health director said she believes Christian County's peak for the disease is a month away.

Recently released data from Google shows the county's rate of social distancing is lower than state and national averages.

In a video shown during Beshear's daily briefing Monday, the pastor of a Louisville church urged Kentuckians to follow the governor' policies.

Three of the Western State patients are being treated at Jennie Stuart Medical Center.

The purpose of the order is to decrease the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The lawsuit alleges the dispatch director was working out of a separate office in the courthouse but did not tell his employees it was because he was concerned the virus would spread in the dispatch center.

From the start of the governor's efforts to limit the spread of the virus three weeks ago, churches have been a challenge.

Kentucky has 917 confirmed coronavirus cases, and 76 people are hospitalized with the respiratory disease.

A Lutheran church near Louisville says it will hold services but limit attendance and restrict seating to every other pew.