
By Joseph Lightner on November 19, 2020
Assistant Professor/Program Director
University of Missouri, Kansas City
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 […]
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 […]
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 Big Green Bus mobile clinic and volunteer corps of practitioners and volunteers are out seeing patients four […]
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 […]
By Health Forward Foundation on June 18, 2020
Medicaid expansion will be on the ballot in Missouri on Tuesday, August 4. Health Forward has long recognized that a lack of insurance is a critical barrier to health. As such, Health Forward has been proud to lead efforts to place the decision to expand Medicaid before Missouri voters. It’s a decision that has the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Siobhan McLaughlin Lesley on January 16, 2020
Executive Director
Gilda’s Club Kansas City
“I have been blessed to have great health care through my employer! I don’t know what I would have done without my great insurance! I would probably not be here,” says Caesar. “In almost nine years of treatment, my medical bills have been around $6 million, while I have paid $9,000 out of pocket! I […]