About Us

Who We Are and What We Do

The Kentuckiana Health Collaborative is a non-profit coalition of businesses and healthcare stakeholders working to solve the complex health problems that face our local community with the goal of improving health status and healthcare delivery in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Our collaborative is particularly useful in solving problems where multiple sectors can accomplish more together than alone. The KHC works to accomplish our mission through a variety of healthcare measurement and community health initiatives that leverage employer engagement, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and education to transform and optimize healthcare.

Mission

The mission of the KHC is to work collaboratively with healthcare purchasers and stakeholders to build healthier communities through high quality, affordable, and equitable healthcare across Kentucky and Southern Indiana.

Vision

Our vision is a more equitable system for health where all people in Kentucky and Southern Indiana have access to high quality and affordable healthcare.

Values

The KHC values collaboration, transparency, compassion, innovation, and diversity of perspectives.

History

In 2001, the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Ford Motor Company formed the last of its Community Healthcare Initiatives (CHI) in Greater Louisville (Kentuckiana), making it the eighth joint program between UAW and Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler. The innovative program was formed years in advance of America’s National Quality Strategy focused on IHI’s Triple Aim framework of better health, better care, and lower healthcare costs. The initiatives were formed to develop a community healthcare delivery system that provided high value care and better health outcomes. While this strategy is commonly accepted today, it was groundbreaking at the time for a business to involve itself in healthcare. The UAW/Ford CHI program was designed to focus on systemic, collective, and collaborative changes to community health and healthcare ecosystems by gaining a critical mass of businesses and key healthcare stakeholders.


In 2003, the Lewin Group released its 18-month comprehensive assessment of the health status, needs, andresources of Greater Louisville. All healthcare stakeholders were invited to join a group to develop a strategy for addressing the study’s findings and to identify the community’s top priorities. Those initial community members decided to form the Kentuckiana Health Alliance, now the Kentuckiana Health Collaborative, with a steering committee and taskforces focused on the selected priorities of chronic disease, obesity, tobacco, and soon after, quality of care. Today’s KHC Consolidated Measurement Reports were a result of those early priorities. After years of being an informal coalition of collective voices, the KHC became a non-profit in 2011 and hired its first full-time employee in 2015. Since its inception, the KHC has strived to be a trusted and effective convener of community health in close partnership with the UAW/Ford CHI. After nearly 20 years of operation, the UAW/Ford CHI closed on March 31, 2020 but continues as a key stakeholder of the KHC’s current work.


On April 1, 2020, the KHC became independent from UAW/Ford CHI and hired its first President and CEO. As a result of this transition, the KHC spent its first year creating new governance and financial processes and elected a new board of directors. The team reconfirmed its commitment to improving healthcare quality, affordability, equity, and community health.