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
Comprehensive Stroke Centers (4)
- Baptist Health, Lexington
- Norton Brownsboro Hospital, Louisville
- University of Louisville Hospital
- University of Kentucky Hospital, Lexington
Primary Stroke Centers (20)
- 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 Daughters 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, Florence
- St. Elizabeth, Ft. Thomas
- Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, Louisville
- The Medical Center, Bowling Green
- TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital, Bowling Green
Certified Acute Stroke Ready Hospitals (14)
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital, Harlan
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital, Middlesboro
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital, Whitesburg
- Ephraim McDowell James B. Haggin Hospital, Harrodsburg
- Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, Danville
- Georgetown Community Hospital
- Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center, Prestonsburg
- Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Louisville
- Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital, Ashland
- Saint Joseph Mount Sterling, Mt. Sterling
- St. Elizabeth Grant, Williamstown
- St. Elizabeth, Covington
- T.J. Samson Community Hospital, Glasgow
- 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.