November 24, 2020 Issue 105
KMA, CHFS Offering COVID-19 Vaccine Webinar Dec. 1

KMA has partnered with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and will offer an exclusive webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 6:00 p.m. ET regarding the current status of vaccine delivery, distribution and next steps for Kentucky. This event will be limited to KMA members and will provide the latest information on the vaccine. 

Registration is now available here. 
KMA Physical Education and Medical Aspects of Sports Committee Continues Work with KHSAA to Address COVID-19 Impact on Student Athletes
Earlier this year, the KMA Physical Education and Medical Aspects of Sports Committee (Sports Committee) provided clinical information to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) regarding return to play for fall sports. Since that time, the KHSAA, in consultation with the Sports Committee, has also developed the “KHSAA COVID-19 Return to Play Form” that student athletes must have completed by a physician prior to returning to competition following a COVID infection. As fall sports enter the final weeks of the season and winter sports are set to begin, KMA is once again providing this information to its members. The documents, available here, pertain only to physicians who may evaluate and treat student-athletes diagnosed with COVID-19 infection and is based on a number of clinical resources.
MCO Benefits and Services Guide

The Department for Medicaid Services has shared the following resource guide to extra benefits or no costs services each managed care organizations may provide. It is available here.
Kentucky Hospital Association COVID-19 Dashboard

The latest update of the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) COVID-19 Dashboard is now available here. The dashboard is an effort to provide current information about hospitalizations and ICU bed usage rates due to the novel Coronavirus.
KMA IN THE NEWS
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MEMBER NEWS
Eckman, Scharf and McMahan Featured in MD-Update Magazine

KMA members James B. Eckman, Jr., M.D., Carrie Birkhead Scharf, M.D., and Crystal McMahan, M.D., with Baptist Health Louisville, were featured in MD-Update magazine for their work in radiation oncology.
Downard named Surgeon-In-Chief at Norton Children's Hospital

KMA member Cynthia Downard, M.D., has been named surgeon in-chief of Norton Children’s Hospital and chief of Pediatric Surgery in the Dept. of Surgery at the UofL School of Medicine.
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