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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

Nominations Open: 2021 Kim Moore Visionary Leadership Award

The United Methodist Health Ministry Fund Board of Directors voted in the fall of 2017 to honor the organization’s founding president with the establishment of the Kim Moore Award for Visionary Leadership. Each year, the Fund solicits nominations in a chosen strategic field of work and honors one individual whose leadership has had a positive ...

Prairie View Receives Project of the Year Award

We’re pleased to announce the recent presentation of our 2019 Janet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition Award to Prairie View, Inc., Newton, for its Tri-County Children’s Mental Health Project (The Children’s Project). The award, in honor of the Fund’s first Board chair, is presented each year to one outstanding project selected by the Health ...

New online education series improves access to breastfeeding and maternity care best practices

Breastfeeding plays a crucial role in the overall health of babies and mothers and demonstrates hospitals’ and birthing centers’ commitment to improving infant and maternal health. However, one of the biggest obstacles hospitals face in working to improve maternity care and lactation support practices is staff education. Research shows that the level of lactation education ...

Faith in Vaccines

A Guide for Talking to Your Congregation: Supporting Empathetic Congregational Conversations on COVID-19 Vaccination Widespread vaccination is the key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic and enabling a return to normal life. The Health Fund supports vaccination as a safe and highly effective way to prevent diseases including COVID-19 but also recognizes that the decision to ...

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

Nominations Open: 2021 Kim Moore Visionary Leadership Award

Prairie View Receives Project of the Year Award

New online education series improves access to breastfeeding and maternity care best practices

Faith in Vaccines

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

Nominations Open: 2021 Kim Moore Visionary Leadership Award

Prairie View Receives Project of the Year Award

New online education series improves access to breastfeeding and maternity care best practices

Faith in Vaccines

How We Fund

Measured Impact

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