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medical services Kentuckians face numerous challenges when it comes to family planning and reproductive health. In fact, Kentucky has the 7th highest rate of cervical cancer diagnoses and deaths in the nation and the 8th highest rate of teen pregnancy. During these difficult economic times, accessing preventative healthcare services is more important and more challenging than ever. PPKY is here to help. From birth control to cancer screenings to treatment for sexually transmitted infections, PPKY is there for Kentuckians’ reproductive health needs. In 2008, PPKY services included: • 13,060 visits to 4 health centers • 1,936 breast exams • 2,335 cervical cancer tests • 1,998 STI tests • 1,423 pregnancy tests PPKY medical centers meet a vital need for healthcare services in Kentucky communities, and for many of our patients, we are their only source of healthcare. Over the past year, PPKY has worked hard to continue expanding its services in order to better meet the needs of Kentucky’s women, men and teens by: • Offering the Gardasil vaccine, which prevents some types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer. • Offering the new long-term, reversible contraceptive Implanon. • Coordinating Mobile Mammogram services at the Louisville Health Center. • Offering rapid HIV testing on-site and organizing a free HIV screening day at Eastern Kentucky University. • Expanding our website to include an online appointment feature, as well as standardized appointment scheduling across the affiliate. • Recruiting bilingual staff and securing medical interpretation training to better serve limited-English patients. • Creating gender neutral health centers that served more than 200 males in 2008. Unduplicated patients by age .................................. Total: 5,526 Age 17 and under:....9.99% Age 18 and 19:........11.44% Age 20-24:................32.07% Age 25-29:................24.95% Age 30-34:................10.73% Age 35-39:..................5.99% Age 40+:.....................4.83% Unduplicated patients by race/ethnicity ................................... Total Clients: 5,526 American Indian or Alaska Native*:.......................0.24% Asian:........................................1.19% Black/African American:......24.52% Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander*:...........0.11% White:.....................................65.07% Hispanic/ Latino:.....................4.99% Multi-racial:..............................2.71% Unknown/unreported:...........1.16% * Percentage is too small to be reflected in chart above. Unduplicated patients by income* ...................................... Total: 5,526 100% and below:.........22.2% 101-150%:................... 24.34% 151-200%.....................12.18% 201-250%:................... 10.08% Over 250%:..................23.15% Unreported:...................8.05% * Income as a percentage of the federal poverty guidelines
education, community outreach and advocacy From our health centers to the classrooms and community centers where we offer educational presentations, PPKY regularly encounters Kentuckians trying to make decisions about their reproductive health with faulty or inadequate information. PPKY is committed to providing medically accurate information that is honest, comprehensive and age-appropriate. We believe that education supports healthy decision-making, and is crucial to reducing unintended pregnancy and disease. Through educational workshops and presentations, peer education and community events, PPKY works to help Kentucky’s women, men and teens make informed and healthy choices about their reproductive and sexual health. In 2008, we launched and expanded a number of efforts to increase awareness about reproductive and sexual health issues as well as PPKY services and programs. • teenR.E.A.C.H. (Real Education About Choices for our Health): With financial support from grants provided by the Gheens Foundation and the Barth Foundation, as well as many individual donors, PPKY re-launched its peer education program, renamed teenR.E.A.C.H. by the teen participants. Throughout the 2008-09 academic year, PPKY trained 22 youth from seven area high schools utilizing a 30-hour training curriculum focused on healthy relationships and reproductive health. Over the past year, peer educators have provided life-changing information to more than 500 teens and their families through formal presentations and everyday conversation. • Let’s Talk: Parent-Teen Communication Workshop: Let’s Talk provides a safe place for community teens and their parents or other trusted adults to improve communication within their family, as well as to learn important information about healthy relationships and sexual health. Facilitated by PPKY staff and teenR.E.A.C.H. peer educators, Let’s Talk participants receive information together in one group and in small break-out groups based on age and gender. Since the program was initiated in December 2008, more than 80 teens and families have participated. • Campus Outreach: PPKY is active on college campuses across the Commonwealth. Staff helped train 13 health peer educators at the University of Louisville and Eastern Kentucky University on safer sex and reproductive health. With help from EKU peer educators, PPKY also hosted a Free STD Screening Day, testing more than 40 students for sexually transmitted infections. Further, the University of Kentucky’s VOX (Voices for Planned Parenthood) chapter distributed 1,000 condoms on campus during the national Planned Parenthood week of action. • Holiday Gift Bags: Between Christmas 2008 and New Year’s 2009, PPKY distributed 1,000 informational gift bags across the Commonwealth to increase awareness about reproductive health and PPKY services. Employees of retailers and salons, primarily in Louisville and Lexington, received the gifts bags that included PPKY literature, Proper Attire condoms and a PPKY magnet. • Advocacy: With greater strength as a statewide organization, PPKY works to advance reproductive and sexual health in Kentucky. From providing legislative updates to supporters, to publicizing reproductive health issues in the media, PPKY seeks to protect the full range of reproductive health services in the Commonwealth. In 2008, PPKY: • Collaborated with community partners such as the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, Reproductive Coalition for Reproductive Choice, National Council for Jewish Women and Americans United for the Separation for Church and State to publish an op-ed piece in the Louisville Courier-Journal opposing the Bush administration’s 11th-hour “provider conscience” rule. The rule would have posed a series of threats to reproductive health nationwide. • Coordinated with community partners to publicize a report by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) that focuses on ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in Kentucky and the negative impact on the Commonwealth’s women, men and teens. • Established an “Action Alert” email list so that community supporters may receive regular updates from PPKY on local, state and national issues related to reproductive and sexual health. • Conducted efforts throughout the fall to encourage Kentuckians to consider reproductive health issues when deciding their votes. • Affiliate resources realigned to provide for more efficient ratio of support staff to clinicians. • Conversion to a single integrated electronic practice management system that provides a platform for full integration with an electronic health record system. • Vendor contracts re-negotiated in order to achieve optimal pricing for services and goods. • Completion of the 2008 financial audit provided PPKY with an unqualified opinion, the most favorable opinion an independent auditor can render.
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