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Supporting innovative, collaborative initiatives for the health and wholeness of all Kansans

Areas of Focus

Access to Care

Early Childhood Development

Healthy Congregations

Healthy Congregations – Neighboring Movement

The Feb. 19, 2019 Healthy Congregations Learning Community Webinar featured Adam Barlow-Thompson and Matt Johnson of NeighboringMovement.org discussing their work and the new Good Neighbor Experiment opportunity for Healthy Congregations teams. Healthy Congregations teams and all Great Plains United Methodist Churches: view the webinar recording below and/or download the presentation slides here. Most people intuitively ...

Health Fund Celebrates $70M in Grantmaking

In 1986, the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund started with a $30 million endowment established from the sale of Wesley Hospital. Since that time, the Health Fund has turned that investment into more than $70 million in grants to improve the health and wholeness of Kansans. The Health Fund, which serves the state of Kansas ...

Health care: Alternative solutions sought in rural Kansas

The announcement earlier this year that Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott would close by the end of the year was a surprise and shock to the community, which will lose several hundred jobs and more than a century of community health care legacy. But it was not necessarily unexpected to those in the industry. Many ...

Trouble Paying Medical Bills? Large Survey Shows It’s Common in Kansas and Missouri

BY ANDY MARSO amarso@kcstar.com While traveling through Kansas talking about health care, David Jordan has heard story after story about people drowning in a sea of medical bills they can’t pay. So Jordan, the president of the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, said he wasn’t surprised when one of the largest surveys of Missouri and ...

How We Fund

UMHMF funds projects that benefit the health of Kansans in three focus areas: Access to Care, Early Childhood Development, and Healthy Congregations. Before filling out a grant application, the first step is to contact a program administrator to see if your project fits our mission.

Growing Healthy

Supporting innovative, collaborative initiatives for the health and wholeness of all Kansans

Areas of Focus

Healthy Congregations – Neighboring Movement

Health Fund Celebrates $70M in Grantmaking

Health care: Alternative solutions sought in rural Kansas

Trouble Paying Medical Bills? Large Survey Shows It’s Common in Kansas and Missouri

How We Fund

Measured Impact

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Growing Healthy

Supporting innovative, collaborative initiatives for the health and wholeness of all Kansans

Areas of Focus

Healthy Congregations – Neighboring Movement

Health Fund Celebrates $70M in Grantmaking

Health care: Alternative solutions sought in rural Kansas

Trouble Paying Medical Bills? Large Survey Shows It’s Common in Kansas and Missouri

How We Fund

Measured Impact

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