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Awards - selects the recipients of the KMA Awards for Distinguished Service, Community Service and Outstanding Layperson. County societies or individual members may suggest nominees
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Cancer - promotes the continuing study of patient screening, prevention, education and treatment of the disease and serves as liaison with state medical schools, cancer treatment centers and the Kentucky Chapter, American Cancer Society.
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Care for the Elderly - investigates, monitors trends, and suggests actions for KMA about the entire political and medical spectrum of care for the elderly. |
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Child and School Health - deals with issues relating to quality medical care for all children in Kentucky. |
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Community and Rural Health - investigates means for bettering all aspects of public and mental health in Kentucky. The Committee maintains liaison with the Department for Public Health and other associations and agencies. |
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Continuing Medical Education - the intrastate accrediting authority and promotes CME accreditation in the state by assisting institutions and medical societies in becoming accredited CME providers. The Committee also monitors all national CME activities as they pertain to and directly affect the Association. |
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Council for CME - sponsors all Associational CME programs offered and assists other organizations, specialty groups, and medical societies in joint sponsorship of their programs when requested. |
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EMS Committee - studies and recommends KMA policies on emergency medical service (EMS) issues, and integrates pre-hospital care services into an EMS system for Kentucky. In addition, the Committee serves as a resource to physicians involved in emergency medical services in Kentucky. |
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Health Insurance Availability and Affordability - monitors insurance access and affordability in Kentucky, including the demographics of Kentucky's uninsured population, formulating recommendations for action on such issues when appropriate. The Committee also serves in an advisory capacity to the Kentucky Physicians' Care Program of Health Kentucky. |
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Investigate Changing Trends in Medicine - studies and reports on evolving delivery and payment mechanisms; demographic trends affecting medical practice; ethical questions regarding financial considerations vs. quality of life; and trends in cost containment activities; and looks at the future role of organized medicine in this changing environment. |
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Maternal and Neonatal Health - deals with issues relating to quality medical care for all Kentucky mothers and newborns. |
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Maternal Mortality Study - determines, by scientific and confidential analysis, all factors involved in maternal deaths in order that avoidable factors in maternal deaths may be reduced or eliminated and better maternal care may be assured through improvement in teaching and practice. |
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Medical Business Advocacy - works to educate KMA members on business, practice management, and regulatory compliance issues; develop products related to practice management and regulatory compliance; and serves as an advocate for physicians with third-party payers and other organizations that directly affect the business aspects of medical practices |
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National Legislative Activities - directs and supervises the work of the Association on national legislation and maintains liason with officials of national government. |
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Physician Workforce - studies and recommends KMA policy on the current and long-term needs for physician manpower in Kentucky. |
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Physical Education and Medical Aspects of Sports - works on the improvement and overall health of the school-age child. It advises the Kentucky Department of Education, other interested agencies, and physicians of Kentucky, through the Board, of programs that would result in the development of stronger bodies, both mentally and physically, and in preventative programs that would eliminate and/or correct matters that might be detrimental to the health of the student athlete. |
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Public Education - provides activities to inform patients, physicians, the general public, as well as other persons who influence health care in Kentucky, regarding positive aspects of the role physicians play in serving the people of the Commonwealth. |
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| Quality Measurement & Improvement - examines processes established by government, private insurance or other initiatives that measure and/or promote physician quality and efficiency; comments on such measurements when appropriate; formulates information and processes designed to promote quality health care; and informs the KMA membership on physician quality initiatives. |
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E-mail: Sarah McKinnie-Chasteen |
Scientific Exhibits - accepts nominations from physicians wishing to present appropriate exhibits for display at the KMA Annual Meeting. It is policy not to accept institutional scientific exhibits unless the exhibit will render a service to the physicians of Kentucky and contains no promotional features. |
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Scientific Program - has the responsibility of constructing the scientific program for the KMA Annual Meeting within the framework of the policies for the meeting prescribed in the Executive Committee. |
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State Legislative Activities - formulates and submits recommendations
regarding state legislation to the KMA Board of Trustees for its
consideration; seeks the enactment of the Association's state legislative
goals and objectives into law and resists the enactment of bills
which are found to be not in the best interest of the public or profession;
maintains liaison with state government officials and works closely
with various county societies in carrying out the state legislative
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Technical Advisory Committee on Physician Services (Title XIX) - a quasi-governmental
Committee that is provided for under KRS 205.590 (1) (a), as a result
of action by the 1960 Kentucky Legislature. This law establishes
a Committee membership of five physicians appointed by KMA, as it
does for similar committees, on dental care, hospital care, nursing
home care, and optometric care. These committees act in an advisory
capacity and report directly to the Governor's Advisory Council for
Medical Assistance. This committee shall keep the KMA Board and House
informed of actions taken by the Committee and by the Advisory Council,
which are of interest to the Association, and make appropriate recommendations
concerning implementation of medical care programs in Kentucky provided
for under Title XIX of the Social Security Act. |
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Young Physician Steering Committee - studies the special concerns of young physicians and determines ways in which organized medicine can be more responsive to such concerns. The Committee facilitates communication and interaction between young physicians and encourages development of leadership potential among young physicians. Committee membership is comprised of physicians aged 40 years or younger and/or those in their first five years of practice.
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Email: Donna Witten
Website: YPS Steering Committee |
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Medical Student Section - supports the active involvement of medical students in organized medicine and provides a forum for discussion of student opinions and ideas. |
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Organized Medical Staff Section - assures involvement of practicing physicians in the governance of hospitals, other health facilities, and emerging delivery systems through a self-governing medical staff to advocate for high quality patient care. |
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Resident Physicians Section - provides resident physicians greater participation in organized medicine and a more direct role in policy deliberations. |
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