♪ >> He's got many more resources available in a birthing center than you might and home burst.

>> Pregnant women in the Commonwealth could soon have a new birthing option.

>> Obviously, I hope it does replace opioids.

>> A new way to relieve pain without opioids.

>> I can't really describe it until you get around the animal.

It's just it brings me so much pain.

>> Plus, how a Lexington Recovery Center is helping its residents enter the horse industry.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Monday, February, the 10th, I'm Renee Shaw and we thank you for spending some of your Monday night with us.

Expectant mothers and the Commonwealth may soon have another option when it comes to labor and delivery.

Freestanding, birthing centers, northern Kentucky state Senator Shelley funky from Myers sponsors, the bill which passed the full Senate last week.

And tonight's Legislative update, we hear from the senator about the bill.

She's been working to get past and she came into office 2 years ago.

>> So this legislative session, I'm working on 3 pillars, wellness, energy and economic development.

Freestanding birthing centers, you might recognize fall soundly in that wellness priority.

We had an opportunity to bring some of our caucus, both the senators and House reps to Indiana and this tree of Life for the center is separate from the hospital, but it's a mile away.

And >> in that.

>> Which is similar to our bill in Kentucky.

There is a position led freestanding birthing center and it runs on the mid with free model.

Part of what you'll find is minimal to no interventions.

That's the expectation.

No at the girl is offered.

No see sections are planned.

No.

Additional pain medicine for per se would be offered.

It would be more holistic.

So you might almost think about a spot for giving birth.

So you may have a spa tub.

That is part of reducing the pain through water.

Sometimes it's referred to as an awkward girl as opposed to an epidural.

But finding more natural ways of managing through the holistically.

Natural pain of childbirth that freestanding birthing center.

It's maybe 4, maybe 5 moms.

Most rarely.

Do you hear that?

There are 5 moms in a birthing center at a time.

Tree of life shared that he might have 2 or 3 on any given day in the state of Tennessee.

Vanderbilt University has an excellent model and they have a freestanding birthing center that is part of their Vanderbilt University.

I would like to see that model considered.

I have shared those thoughts with Saint Elizabeth and encourage them.

Seriously.

Consider how you could achieve this.

But they don't have to be part of a hospital network, but they could be relative to our rural areas may still be an hour from hospital if we can establish a priest ending birthing center at that midpoint been there 30 minutes excellent health facility.

I also see that.

Our home births have doubled.

In the last 5 years.

This is give giving a nother level without heightened level of safety.

You've got many more resources available and a birthing center than you might and a home birth in order to have the centers in place.

This goes back to my 3 pillars of wellness, energy and economic development.

>> This is an economic development play as well.

There are people that have a real interest in opening these people that already have a birthing center in Tennessee by the time this statute takes effect, they'll have the opportunity in July one to begin filing the appropriate paperwork with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and begin sharing their business plan.

Some may already have property and ready to go, but people could begin as soon as July.

1st.

>> Senator funky from Myers bill passed the Senate floor on Friday by a vote of 34 to 0.

Here's what some other lawmakers had to say about the measure.

>> It is a patient's right.

To decide.

Where and how now they want to deliver their children.

So even though honestly, this is a decision I would never make for myself.

But those people that are so desperately wanting an alternative.

They deserve it.

>> The female body is amazing and we have the ability to bring life into the world.

But we all have different needs and some people prefer to be in a different environment.

And this gives us the freedom and the citizens of Kentucky to make that decision for themselves.

And what's the best environment for them to bring that life into the world?

>> The freestanding birthing center measure now heads to the House where last year a bill aimed at removing some of the barriers to opening birthing centers past.

We'll KET following it.

Hundreds protested Elon Musk Saturday in Louisville, U.S. Representative Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky, a Democrat headlined the event hosted by the Louisville Democratic Party.

McGarvey told the crowd recent actions by Musk Department of Government efficiency are alarming, including getting access to the Department of Treasury Central payment system.

The proposed elimination of the Department of Education and U.S. a I D and going after the consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

>> Elon Musk.

>> protection.

♪ >> They are meeting American stand for a a >> McGarvey says he's co sponsored a bill that would prohibit people with financial conflicts of interest and without proper security clearance from accessing Department of Treasury Central payment system.

As the Kentucky General Assembly continues, the 2025 session, lawmakers are considering several bills related to health and family issues and we'll talk about that with 4 members of the Kentucky General Assembly.

You'll hear from them.

And of course, we want to take your questions and comments during Kentucky tonight tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

Another winter storm is taking aim at parts of the state.

We spoke with the National Weather Service to find out how much snow and rain.

The storm is expected to bring.

>> This is a very tricky forecast.

Cold air is rushing in from the north.

Warm air is rushing in from the South Stent or Kentucky is going to have this along gated band where there's a bunch of rain across southern Kentucky, one to 2 inches.

It's wet and sloppy inside.

You've got a flood watch up to be a mess down there and then the middle somewhere between the parkways just north of 64.

The biggest concern for snow, 3 to 5, perhaps 6 inches is basically going to be somewhere from Shelbyville Frankfort, Lexington, and then Winchester and off to the east on 64 towards Ashlynn.

Starting around daybreak going through about 2, 3, in the afternoon.

Wet, heavy snow.

Bursts of snow round is warm.

So initially it's going to come out, but it will start packing up along.

64 court.

>> So be safe out there tomorrow after the snowfall, more precipitation is expected this time in the form of heavy rain.

This could cause high impact flooding for parts of southeastern and south-central Kentucky.

♪ ♪ Kentucky is reporting the first pediatric flu death of the season.

More about this and tonight's medical News.

According to the des cut, Kentucky Department for Public Health, the child was on vaccinated for influenza.

The department says flu vaccinations are down this year with only 17% of children and the state receiving a flu vaccine this season.

It also says influenza is on the rise in Kentucky with outbreaks being reported across the state.

More medical news now.

The FDA has approved the first non opioid pain medication in decades.

The new drug is called Sister Jean and is sold under the brand name Gervin next.

Christie DOT and spoke to orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Gom about the potential impact of this new pain killer.

>> Dr Gum as a surgeon.

I'm sure pain management is a big part of your job.

So give us some perspective.

What is this new non opioid painkiller and how big of a deal is it?

>> Well, great to be honest with you.

It's so new that a lot of a start on time information about it.

We know the concept and we've heard about it.

We've heard that it's been in the pipeline, but again, being approved last year, nobody tried their hand gender been able to use it quickly.

But the biggest difference with this medication, it doesn't action.

Shalit show doesn't act in your brain and act on the peripheral nerves which send a signal to the brain and so really blocks those the entire concept behind it is just that it's not addictive, right?

And we've heard that in the past with some of these other medications.

That actually be ended up being very addicted.

So some of us are a little skeptical.

But overall, we're very excited about another non opioid alternative out there to help our patients.

>> In your opinion, do you think this will be as effective or maybe even replace opioids or will opioids always have a place for now, at least in pain management.

Yet.

>> Honestly, I hope it does replace opioid timing.

Opioids play a very vital role and folks for acute pain control, right?

And situations like you know, breaking a bone fracture, you're injured assure jury, right?

Because that causes acute pain.

But the opioids have been extended a lot more to situations, especially by chronic pain.

And we see the detrimental effects of that.

So it all honesty, a lot of us hope that every place is opioids but likely for good effective pain control.

We've time that really we use what we call a multi modality pathway.

So we attack came from a bunch of different perspectives.

And so that's a likely layer in and it will at minimum it will allow us to decrease the opioid consumption that patient out.

>> Okay.

To use the term for acute pain.

So what exactly do you think this will be prescribed for?

>> Right.

Well, so the indication for its please loosen and that's pretty common.

It just as moderate to severe pain.

Right?

And that's just the scale of how to grade the paid.

But there hasn't been much discussion at the shed.

Is this better for chronic pain?

Is that for acute pain?

It for what we called our Prophet pain, which comes from the nerds.

It's it more for joint pain, arthritic pain.

So I think time will tell.

I'm as clinicians getting their hands on where it's most effective and where it's least effective.

>> Yeah.

And you say when clinicians can get their hands on this.

So when do you think that will be as their timeline on when this could be available?

Well, I actually this morning I had a call with our hospital administration, came to see it's like when we're going to be out to get our hands on it, we could prescribe it, right.

But when it's on formulate a hospitals yet to be determined and when pharmacies have it, I'm not sure we're not pipelines coming.

It may have ramped out and it just so new that we haven't heard about it get as far as folks get and then their >> Okay.

Well, Dr going.

I know it's been a busy week for you in the O R. Thank you so much for taking some time for us today.

>> Yeah, anytime.

Always happy to help.

And hopefully this makes a big difference and they control.

>> And thank you, Christine Totten, the price you'll pay at the pharmacy for this noon pain killer is still on certain.

A Lexington Recovery center is preparing man and the early stages of sobriety for work and one of the commonwealth's signature industries through a partnership with Taylor made farms, residents of stable recovery are learning the ins and outs of horsemanship.

>> I was at a real low point in my life I really wanted to come and try something that was different from the recovery senators I'd done in the past.

Stable offers a job with most recovery centers I want to before did not.

>> And it gave me an opportunity to >> work around horses which I've never done in my life.

Stable recovery is a long term transitional living program from an early in recovery from alcohol and or drug addiction.

We are basically structured living with the workforce development aspect to it.

And we emphasize on the equine industry, an equine training with the help of Frank Taylor, who is one of the brothers that owns Taylor made farm.

I started stable.

Recovery were totally nonprofit.

We do not do Medicaid.

So we we focus on individuals and what they need to get better.

It allows us a man who early in sobriety and give us opportunity to get a job and go through the school for some ship.

It's a 90 day program.

>> They teach us all the basic grooming needs of a horse to learn how to administer medicine, tree injuries, giving improper sale.

>> We started to bring him out here to learn the skill of horsemanship.

I saw the impact that that animal had on these guys and how quickly that change to God that was completely broken into a guy that was kind of hopeful and thinking, man, I might be able to do something about my life.

And so it it didn't take me long to understand the impact that the horse had on on a few months.

The horse does not It is one of those things that when you approach a horse, you have to earn its trust and it has to earn your trust.

And so it's it.

It starts this relationship that it's really hard to put words on.

A lot of these guys have never been interested in their life.

>> Just the interactions I have with him daily.

He's so good for my mental health.

I can't really describe it until you get around the animal.

It's just it brings me so much pace.

We're on one of the most prestigious horse farms in the world.

You know, and these are guys that are coming from homelessness, incarceration and they get these sort of use, you know.

>> On a date on a daily basis.

There are so many different fields.

You can go into with.

>> Whether it be sales are just basic grooming.

You know.

But there are so many of the things you can train for that Mary but just doing what we do here to get us started, it offers a lot of opportunities to go anywhere.

You want an equine industry.

>> We've graduated several men in this program that now have solid careers in the horse industry that.

In and of itself, the industry itself, the acceptance they have have shown towards our population is unbelievable on.

They don't care if you're a felon, they don't care what your background is.

If you show up every day and work hard, you have a chance to advance in this industry.

>> When I left the farm, I felt like I was prepared and what you just going into something without knowing what I was doing and after doing this and working on WinStar, I don't think that I will ever do a >> Over 100 stable recovery, residents have graduated from the school of Horsemanship at Taylor made farm.

Congrats to them.

♪ >> Some tiny scholars are getting the opportunity to put their scientific studies to the test.

Kindergartners with Rise STEM Academy for Girls in Lexington recently visited an assisted living facility to test their game designs.

All to help get seniors moving.

We take a look at the results and tonight's Education Matters.

Reports.

♪ >> Prize is a very special place to be a We are an all girls school and we really work on empowering young women to know that they can do anything.

They set their mind to.

And of course, we have a heavy stem-focused.

So the girls get to do a lot of projects based learning which gives them the opportunity to show their knowledge and more than just taking a standardized test, which is a pretty cool thing.

Each quarter, we have a project based learning that we do based Kentucky standards.

This standard is on push and pull.

It's our scholars are in the background of what a push is, pull is and how we make things go faster or slower.

And then we get into groups and we start thinking about how can we bring this to the real world.

So what you're saying is they actually create a games for the purpose of helping the elder community be able to move and work on therapy.

So each scholar had to think of arcade games that they wanted to build.

And how are they going to incorporate that cushion for our game?

Welcome only.

>> U.S. sites.

If someone has a whole one aside, another the other side.

With people who are playing the game, they take the stand.

♪ A whole.

So the court.

Whack a mole and then doing To for that.

♪ >> I just enjoy across everyone.

Community members that are here.

And so I decided to interact with the girls and really just to get to know them as well as play with them.

And I didn't realize that it was going to be a moment just to have a conversation and really get to know their elder community and build that relationship.

And then my scholars have surprise me because we practice and practice.

And I just wasn't sure what it's going to turn out to be.

But they did amazing.

They really did.

I would just like to say stem girl cry.

>> No argument here.

Stem girls Rock and look at all those smiles.

Now to up the cuteness factor.

You may have heard the girls make reference to guacamole and the story while they're actually trying to say walk a mole as in the game will ♪ >> And KET recently opened our new Louisville studio and the American Life Building on Main Street.

The building itself has quite a history built by world-renowned architect.

Nice van der Rohe in the late 1960's, the American life Building still houses the insurance company that man a lamp to his grandfather founded in the early 19, 100's on the latest episode of inside Louisville, MENA Lampton gives us a history lesson about the building and its importance to downtown.

Then and now.

>> It is exciting to see how many companies are being built right here in Louisville.

So it's it's an evenflo.

I think.

>> Yeah.

And your grandfather, father and now you have seen.

>> That and the inflow so much through through your life time.

>> What do you see as the vision for downtown?

That's what that's a big question.

What are we had a few as Craig, that he would hesitate to.

>> But let's begin with that.

The little things that very Albert was the head of downtown development.

Uni.

I KET that there was no place to walk up and see the river.

So we made this this great prom and not with a little south and then down by Main Street.

And we said, well, that and Wendell Cherry and David Jones building the the Wonderful Art Center and Counter Roland is Scott built that.

The home side.

We can see why people are going to walk up there.

He's going to be lit.

We could have specials out there and it could be fun.

So that was big for the great lawn.

It was before the waterfront was was developed and they made open to all public for picnics and music and everything.

We went down.

Main Street has said, all right, we're going to divide this city into 7 bits does.

This is the art street.

This is the street of music and paintings.

And this is the street of turning old buildings into usable buildings.

And so we went about making a brick sidewalk and we made the walking sticks into bronze to to guide the trees.

We put labels in stone in front of each building.

The show where the theater was where the the hat maker was, where the hardest maker was.

And and then we live it with with really nice looking lanterns and the and the street.

And we we were able to recruit the headquarters of opera and orchestra moved in and it had it began to gather as an arts district.

Well, we have the medical district, the financial district, the governmental district we had the the living about toward by Ormsby end.

We've ways sort of built the city in those 7 areas and tried to label them in some way.

So that was a beginning.

And I think it's is ongoing.

Always so now people have moved out of the towers because of COVID and they got used to work and home.

And now I feel there's a different on differences.

Ire.

I think women are tired of being home and being available for tours all day long.

It really do want to come down town where the restaurants are rebuilding.

That's that's a sketch.

Biden.

But I do think that this city's alive, it's it's just it's Jerry Arabs.

It said last night we remembered you can't be a suburb of nowhere.

You have to have a center.

>> You can hear more about the ebb and flow of downtown Louisville and the vision of what's still to come from MENA Lampton on inside Louisville.

Plus, get a look at our new downtown studio there.

And you can find inside Louisville online on demand at KET DOT Org.

This week is the 200 and 14th Birthday of Abraham Lincoln and and the Kentuckyian was the first woman in America to hold a certain job.

Our Toby Gibbs has that and more.

And tonight's look at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Happy birthday to Kentucky's most famous favorites on Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville on February 12, 18?

0, 9, America's 16th president is the only one born in Kentucky.

100 years later on February 12, 19, 0, 9, president Theodore Roosevelt visited Hodgenville as workers laid the cornerstone for the nation's first the Lincoln Memorial.

I M College of Kentucky move to its new campus in Lexington on February.

15th 18.

82.

It had 3 buildings, college building up, boys, dormitory and the president's home in 19.

0, 8, the school would be renamed State College.

And in 1916, the General Assembly would change the name to the University of Kentucky.

The coffee tree big in Kentucky State tree on February 16, 1976.

But it was changed to the tulip poplar in 1994.

George Snyder died February 10th 18.

41 the Paris, Kentucky native invented America's first fishing reel in 18, 20.

Mary Nelson Miller morning Portland, Kentucky, near Louisville became the first woman to receive a Steamboat Masters license on February.

16th 18?

84, the moment was commemorated in a cartoon appearing in Harper's Weekly when she requested the licensed the decision to grant one to a woman went all the way to the secretary of the Treasury who said yes.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history, I'm told, begins.

>> Thank you to obey.

It's an annual event to honor the youngest supporters of our military coming up tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION here.

How military Kids Day is given the children of military members, a voice and a chance to learn about the legislative process and Frankfort.

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Take really good care.

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