The Kentucky Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (KHDSP) State Action Plan promotes improved diagnosis of hypertension and improves stroke treatment. The KHDSP in partnership with the KHDSP Task Force leads the effort to transform cardiovascular health approaches and practices in the state using collaborative workgroups to turn knowledge into behavioral change and increase use of evidenced-based guidelines for health systems change.
Program Categories of Work
- Surveillance and epidemiology
- Environmental approaches
- Health systems improvements
- Community-clinical linkages
The strategies for KHDSP are to promote reporting of blood pressure and initiate activities to promote clinical innovations, team-based care and self-monitoring of blood pressure; promote awareness of high blood pressure among patients; increase implementation of quality improvement processes in health systems; increase use of team-based care in health systems; and to increase use of healthcare extenders in the community in support of self-management of high blood pressure.
Certified Stroke Centers in Kentucky
Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center (1)
- Baptist Health, Louisville
Comprehensive Stroke Centers (4)
- Baptist Health, Lexington
Norton Brownsboro Hospital, Louisville
University of Kentucky Hospital, Lexington
University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville
Primary Stroke Centers (19)
- Baptist Health Hardin, Elizabethtown
- Baptist Healthcare, Paducah
- Frankfort Regional Medical Center, Frankfort
- Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center, Hazard
- Jewish Hospital, Louisville
- King’s Daughters Medical Center, Ashland
- Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset
- Lourdes Hospital, Paducah
- Norton Audubon Hospital, Louisville
- Norton Hospital, Louisville
- Owensboro Health, Owensboro
- Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville
- St. Elizabeth, Edgewood
- St. Elizabeth, Florence
- St. Elizabeth, Ft. Thomas
- St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington
- Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, Louisville
- The Medical Center, Bowling Green
- TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital, Bowling Green
Certified Acute Stroke Ready Hospitals (16)
- Baptist Health La Grange, La Grange
- Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan, Stanford
- Ephraim McDowell James B. Haggin Hospital, Harrodsburg
- Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, Danville
- Frankfort Regional Medical Center, Frankfort
- Georgetown Community Hospital, Georgetown
- Harlan ARH Hospital, Harlan
- Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center, Prestonsburg
- Jackson Purchase Medical Center, Mayfield
- Middlesboro ARH Hospital, Middlesboro
- Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Louisville
- Saint Joseph Mount Sterling, Mt. Sterling
- St. Elizabeth, Covington
- St. Elizabeth, Grant
- T.J. Samson Community Hospital, Glasgow
- Whitesburg ARH Hospital, Whitesburg
Updated: April 2022
Sources: The Joint Commission, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program and the American Heart Association
Reports and Data
KHDSP Task Force Strategic Map and Plan 2020 - 2023
Kentucky Stroke Registry Annual Report 2021
Previous reports can be requested using the contact information below.