The KHC is a state-wide collaboration of leading healthcare providers and systems that serve as a model for quality, safety, access, coordination, effectiveness, and efficiency of care. The advancement of benchmark clinical services, education, and research through innovative initiatives.

In its efforts to pursue these initiatives, KHC is not an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) nor a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), but rather a Strategic Regional Healthcare Organization (SRHO), aimed at producing many of the same benefits while addressing local and regional healthcare needs without financial or organizational consolidation.