Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation

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Welcome to The Friedell Committee

for Health System Transformation

About Us

The Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation is a grassroots, citizen-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of Kentuckians by promoting an effective, values-based health system, advocating for community action, and measuring the system's performance.

For a downloadable PDF file detailing our mission, objectives, accomplishments, and membership, please click here.

Kentuckians Uniting for Healthy Communities

Photo courtesy of the American Cancer Society's Hope Lodge in Lexington, KY, and Shaun Ring, photographer

Announcements

The Friedell Committee is busy working with other health-related groups to improve the health of Kentuckians. Watch this space for more information.

The Friedell Committee thanks all who donated during the 2012 GoodGiving Guide Challenge. Look for opportunities to donate during the 2013 Challenge.

The Fall, 2012 Meeting was held November 11-12, 2012 at the Lexington Marriott-Griffin Gate

The focus of this meeting was Population Health – “How to align resources in a community to impact the health of the population.”

The agenda & presenter PowerPoints are available under the Meeting Materials tab. Remember that these materials are owned by their creators, so please use appropriately. Thank you to all our Presenters for a wonderful, informative meeting.

Thanks to our Sponsors

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Gilbert H. Friedell, M.D., is Director Emeritus of the Markey Cancer Center, Professor of Pathology Emeritus, and Professor of Behavioral Science at UK in Lexington. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the UK College of Social Work since 2005.

Dr. Friedell was the first Director of the Markey Cancer Center in 1983, the founding director of the Kentucky Cancer Registry, the Principal Investigator of the NCI Mid-South Cancer Information Service, and Co-Director of an expanded statewide cancer control outreach program. In 1990, he stepped down as Director of the Cancer Center to become Director for Cancer Control. He co-founded Kentucky Homeplace, a lay health worker program funded by the General Assembly to facilitate access to healthcare services for the underserved in rural counties across the state.

Among his honors is a Special Recognition Award from the Appalachian Regional Commission in 2003 for “untiring commitment, dedication and leadership in improving the health and well-being of the people of Appalachia.”

120 Counties Project

The Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation needs your help. We want to identify successful examples of community solutions to community issues/problem/needs. Do you know of a model “health system transformation” that reflects an improvement at the community level and that reflects a change in keeping with the Friedell Committee’s Ten Principles? Our goal is to identify 120 examples: one in each county of Kentucky.
Help us get started by filling out our downloadable questionnaire and returning it to Director@FriedellCommittee.org, or by mail to P.O. Box 910953, Lexington, KY 40591.

News

From the Lexington Herald-Leader, 6-14-10, "Health reform is just beginning," by Tom Eblen:

Just thinking about America's health care and insurance system can make your head hurt.

Our system costs too much, doesn't work well enough and leaves too many people out. The new reform law includes more people, but it doesn't do enough to improve care or rein in costs. It was little more than a first step in what is sure to be a long journey toward making health care more effective and affordable.

What should the next steps be? That is what the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation is trying to help Kentuckians figure out.

The committee is named for and headed by Dr. Gilbert Friedell, director emeritus of the University of Kentucky's Markey Cancer Center. It hopes to do for health care reform in Kentucky what the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence did for education reform: engage Kentuckians, not just experts, in finding better ways to do things.