DeAnna Hall

Manager Corporate Health and Wellness

LG&E/KU

DeAnna Hall is the manager of Health Services for Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. She has been with LG&E and KU Energy since January of 2014. DeAnna has more than 25 years of nursing and health management experience, including as a registered nurse for Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky; Clark County Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana; and Kleinert, Kutz and Associates in Louisville. Her health and wellness management work includes developing and overseeing programs for employee disease management, vaccination, counseling and wellness at Jewish Hospital and St. Mary Healthcare, as well as statewide for KentuckyOne Health. With DeAnna’s leadership, LG&E and KU Energy has moved from a participation-based wellness program into an integrated population health and well-being program. Programs managed by DeAnna have won numerous accolades, including the Business First Healthiest Employer Award; the Institute for Health and Productivity Corporate Health and Productivity Award; the American Heart Association Work Place Innovation Award; and the American Heart Association Platinum Award. LG&E and KU Energy also has been recognized as a Healthiest 100 Workplace in America. The company also was recognized as an honorable mention for the 2018 Everett C. Koop Award. DeAnna has been involved with the Louisville Mayor’s Healthy Hometown Wellness Committee and continues to serve on the executive board for the Kentucky Health Collaborative and on the Anthem Client Advisory Board. In addition, she is a founding member of the American Heart Association Mission Committee and a working group member of LG&E and KU’s Safety and Health Governance Council. DeAnna also has three amazing children (Lauren, Leah and John) and husband (Dale) who are the center of her heart.

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Speaker Questionnaire

What are your top priorities for employee health and well-being in 2022?

Innovation and growth of our Health Management Program to benefit the health and safety of our employees and their families.

What are the most innovative programs that you will focus on in 2022 and 2023?

Health Benefits, Absence Management, Clinical Services, and Well-being.

Looking at our three moonshots surrounding costs, culture, and care, which do you align with the most? What are you doing in this area?

We have strategically elevated primary and occupational care by merging Well-being, Health Compliance, and Absence Management into one focus: Health Management. Excellence in care reduces waste and costs. Caring for our employees and their families in this manner is an extension of our strong safety culture..

If you could automatically receive a 25% reduction in costs in three areas/programs, what would your dream list be?

Pharma. Drug costs to employers are out of control. The lack of transparency and difficult contracts are holding employers hostage to a system that does not work. Offering worksite clinics is a solution to this ever growing problem..

Is there an area where you were able to either create savings or stop costs from rising?

Our employer sponsored health clinics, including pharmacy services, have proven to increase access to quality care, increase disease management compliance, and to promote primary care. Employees can receive both primary and occupational care (DOT, CDL, and D&A screenings) with cost containment..

Are you doing anything to reimagine corporate culture and wellbeing?

We reviewed our entire well-being program during the pandemic to insure it was inclusive to those working onsite and remote. We are now in a place to asses how our programs can add the highest value to our employees and their families..

If there were two physical solutions that could be turned into virtual or remote care instead, what would those be?

We have turned our colon cancer screenings into a virtual appointment with a medical provider. We have also continued with our annual biometric screenings. These have proven to be life saving and impactful to our participants health future. We offer these screenings through home test kits, physician forms, or wellness physical at our employer sponsored clinic.

If you look at our 3 Moonshots - Costs, Culture, and Care; In one sentence, tell us what would be something positive for us to take from 2020 and bring into this new year?

Sessions Speaking

Collaborative Care: Clinical Best Practices in Worksite Healthcare

April 27, 2022

11:00 am

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11:50 am

In this session, panelists will take the audience on a journey through the development and implementation of a collaborative care strategy via worksite health centers. Through real examples, patient stories, lessons learned, and actual results, attendees will learn the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’ and how they can leverage a different approach to employee health – one that actually reduces costs while improving health outcomes.

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1 Conference. 3 Moonshots.

Remember the mission to reach the moon? In 1962, President JFK set forth a vision. He initiated a movement that outlived him! Even in his death, the mission was accomplished seven years after his famous speech. Now we’re on a five-year mission, and it's not about us. This is a mission for you – the individual, the stakeholder, the employer healthcare and benefits professional. Join the mission to reduce costs, reimagine culture, and reinvent care.