Kansas Health Institute

Kansas Health Institute
Motto KHI delivers credible information and research enabling policy leaders to make informed health policy decisions that enhance their effectiveness as champions for a healthier Kansas.
Established 1995
Budget Revenue: $4,476,081
Expenses: $4,107,797
(FYE December 2015)[1]
Location Topeka, Kansas
Address 212 SW Eighth Ave., Suite 300
Topeka, KS 66603
Website www.khi.org

The Kansas Health Institute (KHI) is a healthcare policy think tank, created to provide information on health and wellness issues to Kansas policymakers. The KHI was founded in 1995 by the Kansas Health Foundation (KHF), a large, independent, non-profit foundation created to advance the health of Kansans. The foundation reportedly did so on the basis of its conclusion that Kansas health policy decisions often were based on fragmented, anecdotal, information — sometimes biased.

The KHI produces reference data and reports that are intended to advance the quality of the debate and decisions about health care policy in Kansas government. Examples of its reports are:

The KHI has staff members drawn from a variety of disciplines, including medicine, public and community health, health policy and management, health administration, law, political science, sociology, anthropology, engineering, communications, journalism and business. KHI work also involves many consultants, providing added expertise for selected projects.

The KHF is ostensibly non-partisan, but often focuses negatively on Republicans and Libertarians (who overwhelmingly control Kansas government) for their policies on healthcare and related issues. The organization frequently calls attention to issues somewhat broadher than the narrow theme of health and wellness, such as Kansas government tax policies and Kansas utilities' solar energy policies.

The KHI started with funds from the Kansas Health Foundation, and continues to be sustained by a core operating grant from the KHF. However, the KHI also gets significant amounts of project-specific funding from various other foundations, and from state and federal agencies. The KHI's annual budget has grown to over $3 million.


References

  1. ↑ "Kansas Health Institute" (PDF). Foundation Center. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Kansas Health Institute: Working adults more likely to be uninsured than in 2001", 2013-04-17, Kansas City Business Journal,
  3. ↑ Heck, Josh, [Study: 13.1 percent of Kansas population is uninsured], Apr 17, 2013, Wichita Business Journal
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