Ashland - Community Health Improvement Plan, FY 2022-2025

Approved October 27, 2022

UK King's Daughters Mission

“To care. To serve. To heal.” UK King’s Daughters (UKKD) fulfills its mission through its commitment toward addressing the health needs in the community by conducting a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and developing an Implementation Strategy every three years.

Purpose of a Hospital’s Implementation Strategy

A Community Health Implementation Plan (CHIP) outlines how a hospital plans to address community health needs and is intended to satisfy the requirements set forth by state law and the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(r)(3) regarding Community Health Needs Assessments and Implementation Strategy. The CHIPprocess is meant to align King’s Daughters initiatives and programs with goals, objectives and indicators that address significant community health needs described in the CHNA.

Community Definition

King’s Daughters patients collectively come from a large geographic areaFor purposes of this report, the community served by King’s Daughters includes Boyd, Carter and Greenup counties in Kentucky, and Lawrence County, Ohio.

About UK King's Daughters

King’s Daughters Medical Center is a locally controlled, not-for-profit, 455-bed regional referral center covering a 150-mile radius that includes southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky. King’s Daughters offers comprehensive cardiac, medical, surgical, maternity, pediatric, rehabilitative, bariatric, psychiatric, cancer, neurological, pain care, wound care and home care services. KDMC operates more than 50 offices in eastern Kentucky and southern Ohio. KDMC’s primary service area encompasses four counties in two states, Boyd, Carter and Greenup counties in Kentucky, and Lawrence County, Ohio. The organization serves a population of approximately 175,000 and is the largest employer in the region with more than 4,900 employees.