Category: Safety Net

Community health workers can reduce health disparities

By Erika Saleski on March 18, 2021
Managing Member
ES Advisors, LLC

Guadalupe Tredway
Community Health Worker, KU, Family Medicine Department

Tom Mirás Neira
Community Health Worker Supervisor, KC CARE

“Becoming a community health worker has been my dream job. I enjoy helping people to meet their goals to improve their lives, treating them with respect and empathy, and empowering them to do the things that are most difficult. Seeing my clients get ahead of a bad situation is an instant gratification for me.”—Guadalupe Tredway, […]

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Policy, Safety Net

KC Life 360: Changing lives daily through employment, housing, health care

By Joseph Lightner on November 19, 2020
Assistant Professor/Program Director
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Most new diagnoses of HIV are among people who struggle with low employment opportunities and housing insecurity. For those living with HIV, finding employment and housing can be a challenge. Employers may discriminate against people who are HIV positive. People living with HIV may also feel stigmatized and not want to work in an environment […]

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Safety Net

Clinic event administers hundreds of free flu shots

By Anne F. Rauth, MBA on November 11, 2020
Marketing and Development Director
Mercy and Truth Medical Missions

Mercy and Truth Medical Missions, along with the help from numerous community partners, hosted their third Annual Warm Up Wyandotte/Warm Up Shawnee community events. This year’s event was called:  BOO to the Flu because, you guessed it, the event was held on Halloween. Mercy and Truth, along with Advent Health Systems, United Healthcare and Blue Cross/Blue […]

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CATEGORIES
Healthy Communities, Safety Net

Your Story: Care Beyond the Boulevard responds to COVID-19

By Jaynell “KK” Assmann, APRN-C on July 30, 2020
Founder and President
Care Beyond the Boulevard, Inc.

Care Beyond the Boulevard (CBB) has been providing mobile medical clinic services to individuals experiencing homelessness on the streets in the Kansas City metro for over four years.​ With a mission of compassionate health care for all, CBB’s B​ig Green Bus​ mobile clinic and volunteer corps of practitioners and volunteers are out seeing patients four […]

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CATEGORIES
Pandemic Impact, Safety Net

Missourians don’t despair, they stand and fight back

By Cecilia Belser-Patton on July 20, 2020
Inclusion & Equity Director
Yes On 2/Healthcare For Missouri

Earlier this month, we celebrated our nation’s Independence Day and the as-yet-unrealized vision of the Founders to secure, “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  Of course, not all of us have enjoyed these allegedly inalienable rights. COVID-19 has shone a bright light on the health care disparities that have plagued our state since long […]

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Health Care, Health Reform, Policy, Safety Net

If you’re home already, why not complete the census now?

By Karen Dehais on April 1, 2020
Evaluation and Learning Officer
Health Forward Foundation

Today is a day that comes only once every 10 years: Census Day, when we count everyone living in the United States. It’s quite an extraordinary undertaking. Of course the coronavirus pandemic has most of us thinking about other things. Public health precautions and economic turbulence are necessarily top of mind at this time of […]

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Healthy Communities, Policy, Safety Net

During public health crises, equity should be central to solutions

By Qiana Thomason on March 13, 2020
President/CEO
Health Forward Foundation

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, we are witnessing its tremendous impact internationally, nationally, and locally. Prohibitions on travel from certain countries, state of emergency proclamations by state and local governments, universities moving to online courses, and major entertainment and sporting events are shutting its doors to the public. With […]

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CATEGORIES
Health Care, Health Reform, Pandemic Impact, Policy, Safety Net

Cancer deaths evident along socioeconomic lines

By Siobhan McLaughlin Lesley on February 28, 2020
Executive Director
Gilda’s Club Kansas City

At Gilda’s Club Kansas City, we were pleased to learn last month that the American Cancer Society® reported that deaths from cancer have steadily declined over the last 25 years. According to Facts & Figures, 2019, “As of 2016, the cancer death rate for men and women combined had fallen 27 percent from its peak […]

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Safety Net

‘Getting settled’: how a KC organization helped a homeless man find a home

By Christy McMurphy on February 14, 2020
Executive Director
Kim Wilson Housing Inc.

At Kim Wilson Housing (KWH), we have three guiding principles:  Housing is the foundation for good health.  Housing vulnerable people requires diverse, community-based collaborations and support services.  Housing is cost-effective. Homelessness is not.  Last fall, as the holidays approached, each of these principles came into play when a woman called to see if we could […]

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Behavioral Health Care, Mental Health Care, Safety Net


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