Knox County Community Health Coalition provides training and education to community members and partners with health care providers, health plans, community organizations, and others to improve the number of people in Knox County who are actively self-managing their asthma.
Our ongoing work will include training more of our school staff to detect the signs/symptoms of asthma; increasing the percentage of individual Health Care Plans (HCPs) for students diagnosed with asthma; decreasing the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations due to asthma by partnering with diabetes educators and PCPs; partnering with area employers to do asthma education via worksite wellness programs, and increasing the number of people who actively self-manage their asthma.