KYHA

Webinar: Mitigating Hospital Cyber Risks – Ransomware’s Impact on Operations and Outcomes
2024-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
Hospitals across the United States continue to be targets of ransomware and other types of cyberattacks. Not only can these events result in significant and costly breaches of patient information, but they also threaten hospital operations and patient outcomes. System encryption can result in denial of access to life-saving information and medical equipment, while recovery diverts resources from essential operations. Enterprise-wide education on risks and prevention continues to be critical to an organization’s cyber defense strategy. The Kentucky Hospital Association is proud to partner with the American Hospital Association and Stites & Harbison to provide this important series of educational opportunities.
Join this webinar to gain crucial insights into the impact of ransomware on hospitals and best practices to mitigate ransom risks. In this session, participants will learn the role hospital leadership can play in improving an organization’s cyber defenses.
Featured Speaker:
Sarah Cronan Spurlock
Member
Stites & Harbison, PLLC
This event is part of the Cybersecurity Crisis Management: Strategies for Health Care Executives series.
Target Audience:
Technical and non-technical professionals including CEOs, CNOs, CFOs, CMOs, CIOs, CROs, COOs, senior leadership, nursing leadership and IT department staff.

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Contact: Tammy Wells

Webinar: KHA Workforce Survey
2024-01-18 14:00 - 15:00
KHA will host an informational webinar to kick off the annual KHA Workforce Survey data collection on Thursday, January 18, at 2:00 p.m. (ET).
In the webinar, KHA Associate Vice President of Workforce Development J.P. Hamm and Director of Health Information & Analytics Maik Schutze will provide an overview of the survey, review best practices, and answer your questions. The annual report of survey findings has been instrumental to KHA’s hospital workforce advocacy and strategic workforce planning initiatives. The annual workforce survey captures information about inpatient hospital direct care positions, and the webinar is only available to KHA members.
Please contact Maik Schutze (mschutze@kyha.com) to join the informational webinar.
You can find recent workforce publications at https://www.kyha.com/kha-data-center/workforce-data/

KHA Town Hall: KHA Introduces Partnership with Transformational Intervention Supporting Highly Reliable Communication
2024-01-16 15:00 - 16:00
Please join KHA on Tuesday, January 16 at 3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual Town Hall presentation, KHA Introduces Partnership with Transformational Intervention Supporting Highly Reliable Communication. KHA will share our offer to participate in a transformational partnership with the I-PASS Institute which is available to member hospitals. The guest speakers will discuss standardizing hand-off communications and systematically embedding the process into standard work across all disciplines, the entire hospital, and between hospitals.
Speakers:
Dr. Chris Landrigan
Chief of General Pediatric at Boston Children’s Hospital
Co-Founder of I-PASS Institute
Marshall Burkhart
Vice President of Client Experience
I-PASS Institute
Jeneen Carman
System Chief Nursing Officer
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Deb Campbell
Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Transformation
Kentucky Hospital Association
Contact Tammy Wells at twells@kyha.com to be added to the education distribution list (with information on how to register) and to receive additional information on upcoming offerings via email.

Monthly Quality Webinar: RCA2
2024-01-11 11:00 - 12:00
RCA2: Demystifying the Purpose, Presentation, and Power of the Root Cause Analysis and Action Plan
This presentation will cover the basic elements of the Root Cause Analysis and Action plan, and will also define the best tools and methods to use as organizations walk through the RCAA process. Executive leaders, quality leaders, risk managers, nursing leaders, physician leaders, patient safety leaders, and compliance leaders are encouraged to attend.
Presenter: Casey Franklin, BSN, RN, CPHQ, WCC, HACP-CMS, KHA Director of Quality and Health Professions.
Casey has over 16 years of nursing experience, with a diverse health care background that includes hospital quality leadership, clinical management, long-term care, and home health and hospice services.
To better serve you, KHA has moved to a registration process for all educational offerings. After registering, please download the meeting hold for your calendar.

KHA hosts a series of monthly quality webinars. Please contact Tammy Wells to be added to the distribution list.

KHA Office Closed for Christmas
2023-12-25 08:00 - 2023-12-26 17:00
The KHA office will close Monday, December 25 – Tuesday, December 26 for the Christmas holidays.

MGT341 Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare Organizations
2023-12-13 | Barren River Area Development District, 177 Graham Avenue, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 42101
The National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) identified hospitals and healthcare organizations as CI. This course brings planning and management stakeholders from the hospital and healthcare sector together with supporting community leaders to ensure the resiliency of healthcare infrastructure services in the event of a high-consequence event. Participants will examine preparedness processes and activities, sector dependencies and interdependencies, and discuss resiliency strategies to ensure the sustainability of these facilities and organizations.
Registration: https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/?MO=mClassRegistration&D=EU&C=MGT341&S=509
Audience: Hospital Emergency Management

Monthly Sepsis Webinar
2023-12-07 13:00 - 14:00
Please join KHA for our monthly Sepsis Consortium webinar on Thursday, December 7 at 1:00 p.m. ET entitled The New York Experience.
Speakers: Foster Gesten and Kathy Shure
Foster Gesten and Kathy Shure each had key roles in the development of the NY sepsis statewide initiative. Foster will provide background about how New York stated and implemented their sepsis initiative from the NY State Department of Health perspective. Kathy will discuss how she navigated the state agencies to issue the guidance that dealt with insurer payment issues from her position at the Greater NY Hospital Association.
Please Note: As the regularly scheduled date for Sepsis webinars in November and December fall near or on upcoming holidays, we will combine the two webinars into one to be held on December 7 at the usual time of 1:00 p.m. (ET). Again, we will not have a Sepsis webinar on November 23 or December 28, instead we will have a webinar on December 7. Reminders will be sent as the new date approaches.
A completed registration will be required to attend all educational offerings. After registering, please download the meeting hold for your calendar.
KHA hosts a series of monthly sepsis webinars. Please contact Tammy Wells to be added to the education distribution list.

Contact: Tammy Wells

Medical Preparedness and Response for Bombing Incidents (MGT-348)
2023-12-06 - 2023-12-07 | Campbell County Fire Training Center, 10 Fire Training Dr., Highland Heights, Kentucky
This course is designed for personnel from any professional background who may become part of a community response to a bombing event. This interactive, instructor-facilitated program employs case studies and research-based information designed to enhance medical preparedness for and
response to blast effects. Breakout sessions address considerations and concerns specific both to medical responders and emergency planners.
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/jv4cy6r4
Audience: Hospital Emergency Management

Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents (ICS-300)
2023-12-04 - 2023-12-06 | Oldham County 2414, W HWY 22 Crestwood, KY 40014, 2414, W HWY 22, KY, 40014
ICS-300 is intended to serve as a vehicle to share proven incident management strategies and practices as well as to enhance teamwork and coordination among the agency’s mid-level managers and command staff directly responsible for emergency response to incidents of all types in which the Incident Command System (ICS) will be employed. The course utilizes scenarios and exercises to highlight key issues and facilitate discussion. The concluding tabletop exercise is intended to allow participants an opportunity to apply the information provided during the course in a controlled environment.
For more information: https://kyem.ky.gov/training/Documents/December%2004-06,%202023,%20ICS-300,%20Oldham%20County.pdf
Registration: https://forms.logiforms.com/formdata/user_forms/25701_7726379/94169
Audience: Hospital Emergency Management and HICS hospital personnel

Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
2023-12-04 - 2023-12-05 | 172 Division Street, 172 Division Street, 4th floor, Pikeville, Kentucky, 41501
For more information: https://kyem.ky.gov/training/Documents/December%2004-05,%202023,%20HSEEP,%20Pike%20County.pdf
Registration: https://forms.logiforms.com/formdata/user_forms/25701_7726379/94169
Audience: Hospital Emergency Management

KHA Office Closed for Thanksgiving
2023-11-22 12:00 - 2023-11-24 17:00
The KHA office will close at noon ET on Wednesday, November 22, and reopen on Monday, November 27

KHA Town Hall: Current State of Sexual Assault Response and SANE Readiness
2023-11-14 15:00 - 16:00
Please join KHA on Tuesday, November 14 at 3:00 p.m. (ET) for a virtual Town Hall on the Current State of Sexual Assault Response and SANE Readiness.
This presentation will cover the current state of Kentucky hospitals’ engagement with the regulation, actual performance, education, care and support for patients who have experienced sexual assault. KHA’s Deb Campbell, Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Transformation, will join our speakers to discuss the gaps as well as the assistance currently available and in the planning stages.
Speakers:
Serenda LoBue, Collaboration Specialist
Jenna Cassady, Staff Attorney
Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs
To better serve you, KHA has moved to a registration process for all educational offerings. After registering, please download the meeting hold for your calendar. Contact Tammy Wells to be added to the education distribution list and receive additional information on upcoming offerings via email.
Contact: Tammy Wells

KHA Webinar: Workforce Development: A Strategic Approach in Healthcare
2023-11-09 13:00 - 14:00
Workforce Development: A Strategic Approach in Healthcare
Presenter: Holly Lorenz, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
National Speaker, Former Chief Nursing Executive
Turbulent times call for responsive healthcare leaders. Flexibility as leaders is as important as flexibility for our workforce. Are you leading with norms that are no longer valued by the current workforce? This session is focused on workforce (re)attraction and (re)engagement. Responding and adapting to change as new values and new employee expectations arise requires a paradigm shift for leaders. Will you be ready?
Learning Objectives:

Understand what is important to your workforce
Uncover methods that respond to what your workforce values

In support of improving patient care, Huron Consulting Services LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Contact: Tammy Wells

Monthly Quality Webinar: Hospital Acquired Infections and Health Equity
2023-11-09 11:00 - 12:00
Join KHA on Thursday, November 9 at 11:00 a.m. ET for this month’s Quality webinar on Hospital Acquired Infections and Health Equity!
Health disparities are well-documented and explored. The impact of health disparities on hospital-associated infections and surgical site infections is less well known. In a landscape with growing awareness and widening socioeconomic gaps, the adequacy of universal prevention strategies needs to be assessed. This session will overlay the health equity and health disparities discussions with hospital-associated infection prevention. This session will add to the healthcare diversity, equity, and inclusion discussions and connect infection prevention even more clearly to general public health and community health.
To better serve you, KHA has moved to a registration process for all educational offerings. After registering, please download the meeting hold for your calendar.

KHA hosts a series of monthly quality webinars. Please contact Tammy Wells to be added to the distribution list.

KHA Town Hall: Clarification around HB512 and Level Designations for Heart Care
2023-11-07 15:00 - 16:00
Please join KHA on Tuesday, November 7 at 3:00 p.m. (ET) for a virtual Town Hall on Clarification around HB512 and Level Designations for Heart Care.
This presentation will discuss clarification around HB512 and the various level designations for heart care. With the goal of statewide improvement, representatives from Kentucky hospitals will join the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, American Hospital Association (AHA) and KHA’s Deb Campbell to discuss the current work being done, plans for the future and assistance available to hospitals.
To better serve you, KHA has moved to a registration process for all educational offerings. After registering, please download the meeting hold for your calendar. Contact Tammy Wells to be added to the education distribution list and receive additional information on upcoming offerings via email.
Contact: Tammy Wells

Monthly Sepsis Webinar
2023-08-24 13:00 - 14:00
Please join us for the next Sepsis Consortium Webinar on Thursday, August 24 for our monthly Sepsis Webinar at 1:00 p.m. ET entitled Early Identification and Management of Sepsis: Real-World Solutions for Improving Patient Outcomes.

This webinar will include an overview of the use of clinical decision support systems like the Rothman Index to identify clinical deterioration and improve sepsis outcomes. The speaker will also address some of the challenges with sepsis identification and intervention, as well as data analyses and case-studies showcasing outcomes.
Speaker:
Kathy W. Belk
Sr. Director, Analytics & Chief Data Scientist
SpaceLabs
KHA hosts a series of monthly sepsis webinars. Please contact Tammy Wells to be added to the distribution list.
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Environment of Care and Life Safety Conference
2023-07-20 08:00 - 17:00
This one-day conference will provide valuable information for those responsible for managing the Emergency Management, Environment of Care and Life Safety programs within your hospitals and health system, as well as those who must understand Joint Commission Surveys and recent changes to the standards. Information will be provided so attendees can implement a practical, continuously compliant program to achieve maximum performance while effectively preparing for Joint Commission and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services surveys. Attendees will also receive guidance to understand and interpret the most serious deficiencies commonly found in surveys in these areas. Sufficient time will be provided for questions and answers.
