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Project Name: MCHB State Systems Development Initiative (H18)
Applicant Title: HEALTH & FAMILY SERVICES, KENTUCKY CABINET FOR
Abstract Text: Project Title: Kentucky State Systems Development Initiative Applicant Organization Name: Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Address: 275 E Main Street, Frankfort, Kentucky 40621 Project Director Name: Casey Gill, MPH Contact Phone Numbers: xxx-xxx-xxxx E-Mail Address: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxx Funds Requested: $100,000 per year for five years The State Systems Development Initiative (SSDI) program provides an opportunity for Kentucky to respond to the changing needs of our maternal and child health (MCH) population, and to expand and enhance existing data capacity to better inform decision making and resource allocations for MCH programs. The population group served by this grant is the MCH population in Kentucky. The purpose of Kentucky’s SSDI grant is to enhance the data analytic capacity within the Division of Maternal and Child Health in order to address the following goals: Goal 1: Strengthen capacity to collect, analyze, and use reliable data for the Title V MCH Block Grant to assure data-driven programming; Goal 2: Strengthen access to, and linkage of, key MCH datasets to inform MCH Block Grant programming and policy development, and assure and strengthen information exchange and data interoperability; Goal 3: Enhance the development, integration, and tracking of health equity and social determinants of health (SDoH) metrics to inform Title V programming; and Goal 4: Develop systems and enhance data capacity for timely MCH data collection, analysis, reporting, and visualization to inform rapid state program and policy action related to emergencies and emerging issues/threats, such as COVID-19 The Kentucky SSDI program will continue to support the data needs of the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant. This will include ongoing monitoring of state and national performance measures as well as evidence-based structural process measures. Needs assessment activities will be ongoing. In the upcoming grant period, SSDI staff will establish an ongoing linkage between the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Registry and the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) data system. Kentucky will also explore the feasibility of linking NAS surveillance data with hospital discharge data in an effort to see health outcomes of babies born with NAS. Kentucky SSDI will also promote enhancement and development of surveillance systems to address emerging issues. Initial efforts will focus on the growing number of suicides to adolescents. Needs identified through Title V will determine additional surveillance efforts during the upcoming grant period.