Upcoming Meetings
KY4 Community Coalition will meet in-person at Morning Pointe East Lexington on September 10 from 8:00 – 9:30 AM. The agenda is centered around Social Drivers of Health and where to find resources within the community.
Meeting date change! KY1 Community Coalition is now meeting September 23 from 9:00 – 10:00 AM CST via Teams. The meeting will focus on food/nutrition and the aspects in which it affects health.
KY2 Community Coalition is meeting September 23 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM via Teams. The agenda is centered around addressing the needs of patients with obesity and readmissions from different perspectives.
KY6&8 Community Coalition is meeting via Teams on October 7 from 2:00 – 3:00 PM. The meeting will begin with follow up items from the previous meeting held in August as well as a presentation on the Food is Medicine Initiative the Kentucky Department of Agriculture has partnered with KHA and ARH on. We hope you can join us!
KY3 Community Coalition met in August at the Taylor County Extension Office where a panel made up of acute care, home health, EMS, social worker and hospice. The panel focused on discussions around social drivers of health (SDoH) and resources located within the community. Medicaid MCOs were present to talk about their resources as it relates to transportation and other SDoH resources offered.
The community learned of a free state government service, KyNECT Resources, where organizations can be listed as a resource and works to close the loop on referrals made out to the organizations. Community members were encouraged to visit the KyNECT Resources website to learn more: https://kynect.ky.gov/resources/s/?language=en_US
Morgan Bray and Scott Thompson gave an update on the Food is Medicine Initiative that Kentucky Hospital Association has partnered with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture on. To learn more, please visit: https://foodismedicineky.com/
Community Resource Highlight!
Kentucky Prescription Assistance Program (KPAP) is a FREE services that helps qualified individuals obtain their prescription medications through the medication assistance programs offered by drug companies, discount drug programs, and discount pharmacy companies. This resource is available statewide and
Interested in learning more and getting involved?
Updates coming! As the community coalitions continue to grow and evolve, we are looking at making some modifications to the map. The map was originally structured by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) during the 12th Scope of Work. Since that time, Kentucky’s communities have grown in popularity. In order to keep up with the coalitions’ evolution, we are making some adjustments to the map as well as bringing back the monthly Community Coalition Newsletter! This newsletter will feature meeting information, meeting recaps, resources at a state and local level, and so much more.
Be on the lookout for those changes coming this fall!
Kentucky has eight (8) community coalitions across the state. The coalitions are designed to bring together health care partners from acute care, home health, post-acute, EMS, managed care organizations and so much more to discuss hot button concerns health care providers are facing at the community level. If you are interested in learning which community coalition you are a part of and getting involved, please reach out to Claire Arant, carant@kyha.com, for more information.