By Steve Roling on December 20, 2011
Inaugural President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation
I have never met Dr. Donald Berwick. Dr. Berwick was the former interim head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), who resigned from the position on December […]
By Mike Strauss on December 5, 2011
KC Healthy Kids
Sitting down with the family to enjoy a holiday meal is one of the great pleasures we experience at this time of the year. Relatives from far away may have […]
By Steve Roling on December 1, 2011
Inaugural President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation
The American response to health reform has seemingly reached a “cooling off” period until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionally of the individual mandate. This wait and see attitude […]
By Darin L. Haug, D.O., FACOI, FACOP on November 21, 2011
Dean, College of Osteopathic Medicine
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
As our nation moves rapidly toward a projected physician shortage of greater than 90,000 physicians by 2020, the natural solution would seem simple – accept and train more students in […]
By Steve Roling on November 17, 2011
Inaugural President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation
Last week was very special for our family. Our oldest daughter and her husband became the proud parents of their first child and our first grandchild. Isabelle Marie was born […]
By Tanya Dorf Brunner on November 16, 2011
Executive Director
Oral Health Kansas, Inc.
On August 31 of this year Kyle Willis, a single dad and aspiring paralegal in Cincinnati, Ohio, died from an infection in his tooth that went to his brain. He […]
By Steve Roling on November 8, 2011
Inaugural President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office in Washington, DC recently released a report that gives evidence that not only are the rich are getting richer, but the gap between the very […]
By Rex Archer, MD, MPH on November 3, 2011
Director of Health
Kansas City Health Department
When I first came to public health, I felt like many of my young, idealistic peers. The public health system in the United States was on a path to eradicate […]
By Steve Roling on October 31, 2011
Inaugural President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation
The Kansas Leadership Center in Wichita, Ks. (funded by the Kansas Health Foundation) fosters civic leadership. Its initiatives are designed to inspire, educate and connect Kansans from all areas of […]
By Steve Roling on October 24, 2011
Inaugural President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation
Last week, I saw the documentary “The Interrupters” at the Tivoli Cinema. It was one of the most thought provoking movies I have seen in my life. The movie is […]
