COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 2022-2024
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Hospital: The Joint Commission Stroke: Advanced Primary Stroke Center Certification by The Joint Commission Chest Pain Center: Society of Chest Pain Centers Cancer Program: American College of Surgeons Cardiac Rehab: American Assn. of Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Rehabilitation Laboratory: College of American Pathologists Radiology: American College of Radiology Radiation Therapy, Oncology Services: American College of Surgeons Mammography: Food and Drug Administration Blood Bank: American Association of Blood Banks Physician Continuing Medical Education: Kentucky Medical Association Vascular Lab: Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories
Community Served Based on the patient origin of inpatient discharges for CY 2020, Baptist Health Paducah’s community has been defined as Ballard, Graves, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, and McCracken counties in Kentucky, and Massac County in Illinois. The surrounding counties in the region have a similar demographic composition as McCracken County. McCracken County is located in western Kentucky. The county borders the Kentucky counties of Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Marshall, and Livingston, as well as the Illinois counties of Massac and Pulaski. It is comprised of 268 square miles, 17 of which are water; it has a population density of 263 persons per square mile. McCracken County is a Medically Underserved Area and Primary Medical Care Health Professions Shortage Area for Census Tracts 301-306, located in the most at-risk neighborhoods in the City of Paducah. It is also a whole county Mental Health HPSA. Graves and Marshall counties are wholecounty Primary Medical Care Health Professions Shortage Areas, while Ballard, Livingston, and Lyon counties are designated low income population HPSAs.
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