A new consortium of four Kentucky health care organizations, led by the University of Louisville School of Medicine, is working to connect a wide range of health care professionals and employers to better address workforce shortages in rural and underserved parts of the commonwealth. The Kentucky 3RNET Consortium which also includes the Kentucky Office of Rural Health (KORH), the Kentucky Primary Care Association (KPCA) and the Kentucky Rural Health Association (KRHA) will maintain and promote Kentucky-specific health care job postings on the National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNET), a nonprofit online portal that helps job candidates more easily find health care openings in rural and underserved communities and helps community health centers, critical access hospitals and rural health clinics recruit candidates for open positions. Consortium members will jointly manage Kentucky's presence on the 3RNET site to expand the types of jobs posted and increase the us
Several University of Louisville researchers, innovators and healers have been recognized by Louisville Business First as 2022 Health Care Heroes. The awards honor "those who have made an impact on health care in our community through their concern for patients, research, innovation, management skills and being on the frontlines fighting the Covid-19 pandemic," according to the publication. The UofL honorees are: Front-Line Hero: Andrew Odom, emergency room charge nurse with UofL Hospital. Health Entrepreneur: Mahendra Sunkara, director of UofL's Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research and professor of chemical engineering, who worked to develop, commercialize and produce reusable N95-style masks during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Equity Champions: Suzanne Kingery, director of the UofL Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program; and Keith Miller, a trauma surgeon with UofL Health. Health Innovator: Mark Slaughter and Siddharth Pahwa (dual award), cardio
For the past five months, dozens of elementary and middle school-aged students in Louisville have been learning how to be health care professionals, or as they like to call it, "Future Healers."
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