About Us
KHC OVERVIEW
Established in March 2016, the Kentucky Health Collaborative (“KHC”) is comprised of ten (10) leading healthcare systems, representing 65 hospitals across Kentucky as well as locations in Indiana and West Virginia.
Our members include: Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Baptist Health, Ephraim McDowell Health, LifePoint Health, Med Center Health, Norton Healthcare, Owensboro Health, St. Claire HealthCare, St. Elizabeth Healthcare, and UK HealthCare.
Together these organizations serve patients across the Commonwealth by providing a full complement of community, tertiary, and quaternary healthcare services in ambulatory and hospital settings. Approximately 55 percent of all health care services provided in the Commonwealth are done so through the KHC.
The purpose of the KHC is to be a state-wide collaborative of leading healthcare providers and systems that serves as a model for quality, safety, access, coordination, effectiveness and efficiency of care, and the advancement of benchmark clinical services, education, and research through innovative initiatives.
The organization is governed by an Executive Committee inclusive of the 10 member CEOs, each with equal standing. Designated functional teams lead efforts to execute mission-related activities. These teams are populated by key constituents, including clinical, operational, and financial personnel.
In its efforts to pursue these initiatives, the KHC is not an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) nor a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), but rather an emerging new organizational structure, referred to as 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.
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OUR MISSION STATEMENT
“Improving Health in Kentucky”
The purpose of the Kentucky Health Collaborative is to be a state-wide collaborative of leading healthcare providers and systems that serves as a model for quality, safety, access, coordination, effectiveness, efficiency of care and the advancement of benchmark clinical services, education, and research through innovative collaborative initiatives.
OUR VISION
We will be the pre-eminent and preferred collaborative of providers, preparing for transformation of healthcare across the Commonwealth, and advocating for change when necessary, resulting in the improvement of health of Kentuckians, and the successful transition of provider participants in a continually evolving national healthcare system.
Our Purpose
Kentucky Health Collaboratives’ purpose is to be a state-wide collaboration of Leading Healthcare Providers and systems. We serve as a model for quality, safety, access, coordination, effectiveness, and efficiency of care. We want to be the advancement of benchmark clinical services, education, and research through innovative initiatives.
The organization is governed by an Executive Committee inclusive of the 10-member CEOs, each with equal standing.
Designated functional teams lead efforts to execute mission-related activities. These teams are populated by key constituents including clinical, operational and financial personnel. In its efforts to pursue these initiatives, the KHC is not an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) nor a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), but rather an emerging new organizational structure, referred to as 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.