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Kentucky’s Growing Mental Health Crisis Report |
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| What is it? |
The year 2020 was unprecedented due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. This virus adversely affected Kentucky with forced isolation, separation and in many cases hopelessness, resulting in a crisis highlighting mental health illnesses and substance use disorders (SUDs) along with an exponential rise in opioid deaths and overdoses. This report covers two specific areas of mental health ─ suicide and substance use disorder. |
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Hospital leaders and trustees, general public, community leaders and legislators |
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https://www.kyha.com/assets/docs/DataDocs/KentuckysGrowingMentalHealthCrisisReport.pdf |
| Contact: | Melanie Landrum |
Hospital Economic Importance Report |
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| What is it? |
Kentucky’s 127 hospitals make an important contribution to the economy of the state and, through the provision of life-saving services, to the health of its citizens. The Hospital Economic Importance Report shares data on how Kentucky Hospitals affect the economy of the commonwealth and the local communities they serve. |
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Hospital leaders and trustees, general public, community leaders and legislators |
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| Contact: | Ginger Dreyer |
| Kentucky Hospital Statistics | |
| What is it? |
The Kentucky Hospital Association’s Kentucky Hospital Statistics is a comprehensive compilation of data on Kentucky hospitals: numbers, types and location of hospitals in Kentucky, utilization of services, hospital finances, quality indicators, workforce and the economic impact of Kentucky’s hospitals as employers. It also contains information on Kentucky’s changing demographics, as well as state rankings on: mortality, health status and utilization measures. Kentucky Hospital Statistics includes the most recent data and trends available. |
| Audience: | Hospital leaders and trustees, legislators and researchers |
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http://www.kyha.com/kentucky-hospital-statistics |
| Contact: | Ginger Dreyer |
Opioid-Related Inpatient Stays and Emergency Department Visits by State |
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| What is it? | A statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (H-CUP). The report presents data from H-CUP Fast Stats on the national rate of opioid-related hospital inpatient stays and emergency department (ED) visits from 2005 to 2014. |
| Audience: | Hospital leaders, clinicians, legislators and trustees. |
| Link: | OpioidHospitalStaysEDVisitsbyState.pdf |
| Contact: | Nancy Galvagni |
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