A new program in two Northern Kentucky cities aims to reduce avoidable trips to the emergency department and inpatient hospital stays for adults with certain chronic diseases.

Dr. Michael Gieske exemplifies just the kind of doctor you would want for yourself — kind, personable, charming, capable, well educated, experienced, dedicated, warm, engaging — and ferocious.

Luann Beeson was the 500th lung cancer discovered through St. Elizabeth’s Lung Cancer Screening Program, the early detection program championed by Dr. Michael Gieske who says early detection is the key to almost “no deaths” from lung cancer.