A new brief from KAC and UMHMF focuses on the many benefits of evidence-based home visiting programs in helping parents take an informed, active role in the lives of their children. Through home-based visits with trained professionals equipped with evidence-based strategies and tactics, parents gain skills and competencies essential to supporting and improving the health …
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The Benefits of Home Visiting
Radio show educates on Medicaid expansion impact
Update: KS House passes KanCare expansion bill today 69-54 Hutchinson radio station KWBW host John Brennan this morning interviewed Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System President/CEO Ken Johnson, Health Fund President David Jordan, and Horizons Mental Health Center CEO Mike Garrett to explore current healthcare challenges and increase awareness and understanding of the impact Medicaid expansion would …
Maximizing Medicaid for Kansas Kids
A new brief from KAC and UMHMF looks at how focusing on our children’s health from their earliest days provides not only the best lifetime health outcomes but also an incredible return on investment. From access to prenatal care, to a baby’s first encounters with a doctor, Kansas’ Medicaid program provides for powerful opportunities to …
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 …
New study finds large number of Kansans living with medical debt
MD News February/March 2018, Greater Kansas Edition Consumer survey provides rich data on the magnitude of states’ access problems RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC— With stakeholders concerned about rising costs and access to health care, a new study finds that roughly one-quarter of adults (ages 19 to 64) in both Kansas and Missouri, and one-third of children in …
Kearny County Hospital Awarded 2017 Gilbreath Award
Kearny County Hospital Pioneer Care Advocacy Team 2017 Recipient Janet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition Award Kearny County Hospital and Rural Health Clinic draw patients from a 12-county area across southwest Kansas and western Colorado, an area with populations comprising at least 22 nationalities. The organization’s unique, mission-related recruiting practices have enabled it to expand …
After 30 years, United Methodist Health Ministry Fund has second president
By Amy Geiszler-Jones For the first time in its history, the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund has had a leadership change. Kim Moore, the fund’s first president, retired at the end of January. David Jordan, former executive director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, is the new president. The United Methodist Health Ministry Fund …