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Kentucky Transformational Employment Program (KTEP) Provides Pathway for Employers to Improve Lives and Transform Business

Filed Under: Opioids September 29, 2021, Natalie Middaugh

On September 14, 2021, the Kentucky Transformational Employment Program (KTEP) was launched at the Kentuckiana Health Collaborative’s September Community Health Forum. KTEP is a voluntary program for employers who facilitate assessment for substance use disorder treatment for offerees or employees who test positive on employment-related drug screens while maintaining their […]

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Supporting Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Through Transformational Employment

Filed Under: Opioids August 25, 2021, Natalie Middaugh

It has been four years since a nationwide public health emergency was declared in response to rising rates of opioid use disorder and opioid-related overdose deaths. This declaration catalyzed a movement towards expanding access to high quality evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery support services, removing stigma from addiction, and transforming […]

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Employer Cohort Convenes on Addressing Opioid Misuse and Pain

Filed Under: Community Health, Mental Health, Opioids November 24, 2020, Natalie Middaugh

From November 2019 to April 2020, the Kentuckiana Health Collaborative convened a group of 22 employers to collaborate and take a deep dive into how they can support their employees and business in the prevention, treatment, and recovery from opioid misuse and disorder, and the diagnosis, treatment, and management of […]

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Kentuckiana Health Collaborative Releases Community Measurement Reports, Collects Data on Opioid Prescribing

Filed Under: KHC News, Measurement, Opioids April 30, 2020, Stephanie Clouser

The Kentuckiana Health Collaborative is pleased to release the 2018 Community Measurement Reports, which also includes opioid prescribing data as part of the KHC’s partnership with the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE). For the last 15 years, the KHC has led the way in healthcare quality measurement and transparency through […]

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Pain Symposium Kickstarts Employer Conversation on Advancing Comprehensive, Integrative, Evidence-Based Pain Management

Filed Under: KHC News, Opioids April 28, 2020, Natalie Middaugh

At the peak of the opioid crisis in 2017, the Kentuckiana Health Collaborative identified substance use disorders and mental health as one of our top organizational priorities. Since then we have convened our community partners to develop several resources and educational opportunities to aid in addressing the crisis. Through this […]

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KHC Releases ‘Opioids and the Workplace’ Online Interactive Toolkit, Addition on Pain Management

Filed Under: KHC News, Opioids April 22, 2020, Stephanie Clouser

As part of the Kentuckiana Health Collaborative’s (KHC) ongoing focus on high value behavioral healthcare and third year of partnership with the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE), the KHC has developed updated thier “Opioids and the Workplace: An Employer Toolkit for Supporting Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery” toolkit to now contain […]

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Understanding Pain: the Precursor to Creating a Healthcare System to Beat the Opioid Epidemic

Filed Under: Opioids April 15, 2020, Stephanie Clouser

(Note: This guest blog post was written by Larry Benz, PT, DPT, OCS, MBA, MAPP, President and CEO of Confluent Health. Benz will speak at the KHC Pain Symposium, Moving Upstream of the Opioid Epidemic, on April 22.) At the KHC Pain Symposium next week, I’ll be presenting to employers […]

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KHC Partners with IBM Watson Health to Develop Employer Benchmarks for Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery of OUD

Filed Under: KHC News, Opioids December 18, 2019, Stephanie Clouser

The Kentuckiana Health Collaborative is a data-driven organization. For more than 15 years, we’ve led the way in driving healthcare quality and value of care through our measurement and transparency work, primarily through our annual quality healthcare reports. We know that you can’t truly address an issue without first understanding […]

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Tackling the Opioid Epidemic: The Unintended Consequences

Filed Under: Community Health, Opioids November 25, 2019, Stephanie Clouser

(Note: This guest piece was written by Lori Earnshaw, MD FAAHPM HMDC, Senior Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician, Associate Clinical Professor, University of Louisville Department of Medicine. All opinions are the author’s own.) Every day, I think about the patients I have seen in my practice of hospice and palliative […]

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