KHC Update — February 2022
KHC webinar: “Strategies for Effective Care Coordination”
Join us for our next KHC Office Hours on Feb. 23, 2022, from 10 – 11 a.m. The KHC team will welcome Jeff Capobianco, PhD, a national expert in behavioral health and Senior Consultant to the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. He will share perspectives on the key components of care coordination and outline strategies to advance the integration of behavioral health across the continuum. Register here.
KHC announces new Executive Director
The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative (KHC) Board of Directors has selected Malea Hartvickson as the organization’s Executive Director effective January 1, 2022. Over the last year, she was a Program Director leading one of KHC’s largest initiatives, the Health Quality Innovation Network.
Previously, Hartvickson was a Quality Improvement Advisor for KHC’s Practice Transformation Network, working with medical practices in the western and north central part of the state to help them continually improve health care quality and maximize patient safety.
KHC Update — December 2021
New opioid initiative enrolling one-on-one consultations
Kansas Partners in Opioid Safety (KPOS) is a unique opioid safety initiative from the KU Medical Center Area Health Education Centers and the Kansas Overdose Data to Action Program. KPOS offers tools and resources for opioid safety and seeks to understand both the challenges and successes that organizations and communities face with opioid safety. KPOS is arranging one-on-one 15-minute sessions with providers to discuss the most recent research data and evidence-based approaches for safe opioid practices.