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 Kentucky Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention 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
Comprehensive Stroke Centers
- Baptist Health Lexington
- Norton Brownsboro Hospital, Louisville
- University of Kentucky Hospital, Lexington
- University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville
Primary Stroke Centers
- Baptist Health LaGrange
- Baptist Health Louisville
- Baptist Healthcare Paducah
- Frankfort Regional Medical Center
- Hardin Memorial Health, Elizabethtown
- Jackson Purchase Medical Center (PineLake Regional Hospital, LLC), Mayfield
- Jewish Hospital, Louisville
- King’s Daughter’s Medical Center, Ashland
- Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset
- Norton Audubon Hospital, Louisville
- Norton Hospital, Louisville
- Owensboro Health, Inc.
- Pikeville Medical Center
- Saint Joseph Hospital, Lexington
- St. Elizabeth Edgewood
- St. Elizabeth Ft. Thomas
- St. Elizabeth Florence
- Stes. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, Louisville
- The Medical Center, Bowling Green
- TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital, Bowling Green
Certified Acute Stroke Ready Hospitals
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital, Harlan
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital, Middlesboro
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital, Whitesburg
- Highlands Regional Medical Center, Prestonsburg
- Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Louisville
- St. Elizabeth Covington
- St. Elizabeth Grant, Williamstown
- Three Rivers Medical Center, Louisa
Sources: The Joint Commission, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program and the American Heart Association
Reports and Data
Kentucky Heart Disease and Stroke Program Strategic Map 2017 - 2019
Kentucky Stroke Registry Annual Report 2019.pdf
Previous reports can be requested using the contact information below.