Partners
Addressing Kentucky’s hospital workforce crisis is a team effort. Meet our partner organizations!
Partners
The Kentucky Office of Rural Health (KORH), established in 1991, is a federal-state partnership authorized by federal legislation. The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health serves as the federally-designated Kentucky Office of Rural Health. The mission of the KORH is to support the health and well-being of Kentuckians by promoting access to rural health services. The program provides a framework for linking small rural communities with local, state and federal resources while working toward long-term solutions to rural health issues. The KORH assists clinicians, administrators and consumers in finding ways to improve communications, finances and access to quality health care while ensuring that funding agencies and policymakers are made aware of the needs of rural communities.
KHA works very closely with the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE). This includes serving as member of CPE’s Healthcare Workforce Investment Fund Steering Committee per the information below. Also linked below is CPE’s Healthcare Workforce Collaborative and its general website. CPE is an excellent resource to serve students, employers, and schools to enhance partnerships and resources.
HealthForce Kentucky is an effort to inspire careers in health care by providing wider access to the highest levels of instruction and technology. This unique collaboration involves nine colleges and universities along with numerous school districts across 16 counties in Western Kentucky.
The Kentucky Board of Nursing protects the public by development and enforcement of state laws governing the safe practice of nurses, dialysis technicians, and licensed certified professional midwives.
Kentucky’s Healthcare Workforce Collaborative (HWC) is a $10 million initiative funded by the legislature to bring together state leaders, policy experts, campus leadership and the health care industry to solve Kentucky’s health care crisis.
AHEC serves to highlight healthcare jobs to high school students:
- Educating high school students about healthcare pathways through hands-on programs, including, but not limited to: summer enrichment programs, mentorship, career expos, classroom/after-school activities.
- Preparing post-secondary students for the healthcare workforce.
- Organizing statewide programming such as AHEC Scholars designed to better prepare health profession students for future practice in rural and urban underserved communities.
- Bringing health profession students and graduates back to rural and medically underserved Kentucky to serve their communities.
- Continuing education programs, address key issues in health professional shortage areas by providing health professionals with access to resources that support practice, disseminate best practices, and improve quality of healthcare for medically underserved communities and health disparities populations.
Resources
KYVALOR pairs veterans with prospective employers in Kentucky. They are a nonprofit organization that helps veterans capitalize on their military experience to meet career goals. KYVALOR partners with employers throughout the Commonwealth to connect transitioning service members and their spouses with open job opportunities.
KHA is a proud member of the Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Kentucky program, which is a federally funded initiative exploring stay-at-work/return-to-work (SAW/RTW) strategies. Led by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy in partnership with the Employment and Training Administration and the Social Security Administration, RETAIN is engaging various state teams in a series of SAW/RTW demonstration projects.
- Click here for more information on how RETAIN can help your employees remain or return to work
SOAR is a regional nonpartisan nonprofit that champions local projects, programs, and advocacy for the 54 ARC-mandated counties in Eastern Kentucky. Our mandate: To fill the economic gaps left by the decline of the coal industry. Our task: To rally our communities to help us achieve these goals together for the good of all.
The Statewide Workforce and Talent Team (SWATT) is a group of statewide organizations committed to improved measurement, coordination and delivery of workforce development solutions and services to Kentucky employers.
The Kentucky Hospital Association has partnered with the Kentucky Chamber Foundation’s Workforce Center to create a Talent Pipeline Management (TPM®) program designed for hospitals to build their talent supply chains.
