{"id":422,"date":"2018-05-01T15:42:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthministryfund.blackwellstaging.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2019-01-30T04:28:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T04:28:19","slug":"kearny-county-hospital-awarded-2017-gilbreath-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/kearny-county-hospital-awarded-2017-gilbreath-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kearny County Hospital Awarded 2017 Gilbreath Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Kearny County Hospital<\/strong>
\r\nPioneer Care Advocacy Team<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2017 Recipient<\/strong>
\r\nJanet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition Award<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Morita Truman and David Jordan present Kearny County Hospital CEO, Benjamin Anderson, with the 2017 Janet Sevier Gilbreath Project of the Year award at a May 1, 2018 ceremony in Hutchinson.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Kearny County Hospital and Rural\r\nHealth Clinic draw patients from a 12-county area across southwest Kansas and\r\nwestern Colorado, an area with populations comprising at least 22\r\nnationalities. The organization\u2019s unique, mission-related recruiting practices\r\nhave enabled it to expand its primary care provider capacity.   <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The organization has instituted a\r\nmulti-targeted approach to positively affect the health of residents in and\r\naround Kearny County.  In 2017 the Health Fund supported the salary of a\r\nMasters Level Social Worker enabling the Pioneer Care Advocacy Team to expand\r\nits level of care coordination services to the refugee and immigrant population\r\nthat lives in and around Kearny County, specifically to the sizeable and\r\nculturally isolated Somali population.  The Care Coordination Team makes\r\nin-home visits, participates in patient rounds of acute care hospital patients\r\nand visits with emergency room patients who are triaged by medical providers as\r\nnon-emergent.  All of these activities help reduce inappropriate emergency\r\nroom visits while increasing appropriate clinic use.  This work played a\r\nsignificant part in reducing non-emergent visits to the hospital\u2019s Emergency\r\nRoom by 88% in a single year (from a monthly high of 110 visits down to 14).\r\n In 2016, 168 persons received care coordination services; in 2017 that\r\nnumber expanded to 245.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Additionally, the care\r\ncoordinators assist patients with Medicaid applications and accessing patient\r\nassistance funds so they can receive medications that are otherwise\r\nunaffordable.  The care coordination team makes referrals to\r\ncommunity-based services and provides some transportation services to enable\r\npersons to access behavioral health services or other social services.  <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Care Coordinators also advocate\r\nfor their clients.  In one case an insurance company denied pre-authorized\r\npayment for a drug that would prevent a woman, with a history of miscarriage,\r\nfrom going into preterm labor at 22 weeks.  Had that initial denial not\r\nbeen overturned, it is very likely the mother would have delivered early and\r\nthe newborn might not have survived or would have required hospitalization in a\r\nneonatal intensive care unit for many weeks.  That hospitalization would\r\nhave been very costly to the payer, parents, and hospital. For an approximate\r\n$4,000 payment of medication to avoid preterm labor, the insurance payer likely\r\nprevented the expenditure of many more dollars for intensive care\r\nservices. 
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\r\nFor these accomplishments and for the leadership and service provided in rural\r\nand frontier regions of Kansas, Kearny County Hospital is presented the 2017\r\nJanet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition award for the work of its\r\nPioneer Care Advocacy Team.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Representing the project for\r\nKearny County Hospital at the awards ceremony were Benjamin\r\nAnderson, <\/strong>CEO; Kendal Carswell<\/strong>, Director,\r\nPioneer Care Advocacy Team; team members Katrina Brown<\/strong>, Karla\r\nDavila<\/strong>, Meredith Peters<\/strong>, Denise\r\nRobinson<\/strong>, Steve Sullivan<\/strong>, and Linzie\r\nVanatta<\/strong>; Betty Greer<\/strong>, President, Board of\r\nTrustees; and Teresa Beaudry<\/strong>, Board of Trustees.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Awarded May 1, 2018<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Learn more about the Janet Sevier Gilbreath award<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kearny County Hospital Pioneer Care Advocacy Team 2017 Recipient Janet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition Award Kearny County Hospital and Rural Health Clinic draw patients from a 12-county area across southwest Kansas and western Colorado, an area with populations comprising at least 22 nationalities. The organization\u2019s unique, mission-related recruiting practices have enabled it to expand …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}