Category: Safety Net

We get by with a little help from our friends

By Anne Foley Rauth, MBA on May 26, 2022
Marketing and Development Director
Mercy and Truth Medical Missions

Rubiselda was late. Twenty-two minutes late.   I was nervous. The local news station with camera crew and news anchor were waiting for Rubiselda Velazquez, a patient of Mercy and Truth Medical Missions. They had just finished their interview with the executive director of Pharmacy of Grace, the first freestanding nonprofit pharmacy in the Kansas City […]

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Love Your Neighbor celebration ends with a governor and a KC Chief 

By Anne Foley Rauth, MBA on February 17, 2022
Marketing and Development Director
Mercy and Truth Medical Missions

The pandemic has been especially challenging for patients of Mercy and Truth Medical Missions, a safety net clinic with two locations; one in Kansas City, Kansas and one in Shawnee Kansas. During a staff devotion time, an idea popped into my head about truly embracing the concept of “loving your neighbor”.  In February 2022, that […]

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Health Reform, Safety Net

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Questions and answers about Health Forward’s 2022 grantmaking transition

By Health Forward Grants Team on November 17, 2021

Health Forward Foundation

Last week, we announced changes to our grantmaking process that will take place in 2022.  Our 2022 foundation defined grant funding process will change to provide sustaining support during this transition period, while our applicant defined grants will be awarded less frequently. You can read the full details here.  Understandably, you have reached out to […]

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Health Forward, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Safety Net

Pages with Partners: Mercy and Truth Medical Missions

 Pages with Partners

By Cori Stites on October 14, 2021
Program Associate
Health Forward Foundation

Join us for our newest blog series Pages with Partners, where Health Forward staff select a book to discuss with a community partner. If you have a book recommendation, fill out the form at the end of this post. Maid: Hard work, low pay, and a mother’s will to surviveBy Stephanie Land In Stephanie Land’s […]

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Equity, Health Care, Health Forward, Safety Net, Social Factors

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 Foley 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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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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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


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