Efforts will also address obstetrics and transplant services.
Specifically, officials from both health systems announced plans to establish:
- A statewide stroke and advocacy collaboration. The collaboration will partner with community hospitals to provide preventative education on healthy living and provide stroke screenings and training for emergency departments to be prepared for stroke patients. In addition, the collaboration will create Kentucky’s first statewide stroke registry.
- A cancer program to share resources, research agendas and clinical trials. Physicians, researchers and staff from the Norton Cancer Institute and the UK Markey Cancer Center will share resources, research and clinical trials which span across the entire continuum of care.
- An educational network to address obesity and weight management. As part of the network, Norton will expand its medical weight management services and educational programs to Lexington, and Norton facilities will adopt UK HealthCare’s protocols for diabetes at its hospitals. Also, Norton Healthcare patients will participate in clinical trials that expand the growing research program at UK’s Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center.
- Expanded OB/GYN teaching programs. Norton hospitals will serve as training sites for UK residents, and several Norton Healthcare physicians to join UK’s faculty.
- A transplant and specialty clinic in Louisville. The new transplant clinic will provide comprehensive pre-and-post transplant care for patients. Scheduled to open in June, the clinic will be housed at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville and staffed by UK HealthCare transplant specialists in kidney, liver, heart and lung diseases.
“Since announcing the memorandum of agreement last November, we have worked to identify opportunities for collaboration to improve the access and quality of care for Kentuckians close to their homes while making sure that patients with the most complex medical issues receive the care they need without having to leave the state,” said Stephen A. Williams, president & CEO of Norton Healthcare.
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