{"id":136,"date":"2018-02-19T03:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthministryfund.blackwellstaging.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2019-01-28T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:18:36","slug":"health-fund-has-second-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/health-fund-has-second-president\/","title":{"rendered":"After 30 years, United Methodist Health Ministry Fund has second president"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>By Amy\r\nGeiszler-Jones<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery alignleft columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/app\/uploads\/Kim-Moore.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"402\" data-link=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/another-headline-here\/kim-moore\/\" class=\"wp-image-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kim-Moore.jpg 250w, https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kim-Moore-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption>Kim Moore, Health Fund President 1986-2019<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For the first time in\r\nits history, the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund has had a leadership\r\nchange.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Kim Moore, the fund\u2019s\r\nfirst president, retired at the end of January. David Jordan, former executive\r\ndirector of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, is the new president.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The United Methodist\r\nHealth Ministry Fund was formed in 1986 by the Kansas West Conference, now the\r\nGreat Plains Conference, of the United Methodist Church, using $30 million of\r\nthe proceeds from the sale of Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. The Kansas\r\nHealth Foundation was also endowed by the 1985 sale of Wesley Medical Center \u2014\r\nat the time, a nonprofit hospital affiliated with the United Methodist Church \u2014\r\nto the for-profit Hospital Corporation of America (HCA).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Moore had been working\r\nas an attorney for more than a decade at Kansas\u2019 largest law firm \u2014 Foulston\r\nSiefkin, in Wichita \u2014 when he applied for the leadership job with the fund. A native\r\nKansan and the son of a legislator, he felt he understood the needs of Kansans.\r\nHe still maintains a small family farm near Longton, in Elk County.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI was interested in a\r\njob where I could put my social consciousness to work more than I had with my legal\r\ncareer,\u201d says Moore, who had specialized in employee benefits and tax-exempt\r\norganizations. \u201cI felt both an intellectual and spiritual call to do this. I\r\nwanted to use a different set of my talents.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Max Clayton, the\r\nfund\u2019s board chair, noted Moore\u2019s impact the following way in the release\r\nannouncing Moore\u2019s retirement: \u201cThe culture of the fund \u2014 its DNA, its way of\r\noperating and, one might even say, its personality \u2014 has been informed by Kim\u2019s\r\nvision, passion and embrace of constant learning and innovation.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Moore looks at his\r\nleadership tenure as having two halves: The first 15 years were focused on\r\ninvesting and growing the fund and laying the groundwork for some health\r\ninitiatives, and the second half has been marked by a more strategic focus to\r\naccomplish specific health and wellness objectives for Kansans of all ages.\r\nUnder his leadership, the fund provided more than $68 million in grants for\r\nmore than 2,200 projects, according to fund officials.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In those first 15\r\nyears, for example, the fund helped spread Medicare-certified hospices\r\nstatewide, Moore says.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Fund President: David Jordan<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/app\/uploads\/hs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/hs1.jpg 256w, https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/hs1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption>David Jordan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>David\r\nJordan, the new United Methodist Ministry Health Fund President, has an\r\nextensive background in creating access to health care.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For\r\nalmost two years, Jordan served as executive director for the Alliance for a\r\nHealthy Kansas, a coalition of more than 100 organizations whose top policy\r\npriority has been expanding KanCare. His previous experience includes serving\r\nas a project director for Community Catalyst, a leading consumer health\r\nadvocacy group, where he led a national campaign to expand access to dental\r\ncare, and as campaign director for Massachusetts Affordable Care Today, for\r\nwhich he directed a ballot campaign to bring about the state\u2019s landmark\r\nhealthcare law. The Massachusetts native is completing work on a Master of\r\nPublic Administration degree at the University of Kansas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Now the fund\u2019s\r\nstrategic philanthropy has three primary areas of focus: breast-feeding, early\r\nchildhood neurological needs and health delivery systems in rural Kansas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Using the World Health\r\nOrganization\u2019s Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative list of maternity-care\r\npractices, the fund developed an initiative called High 5 for Mom &amp; Baby to\r\nhelp Kansas hospitals better support breast-feeding, Moore says. The initiative\r\nlaunched in June 2012, and now about 80 percent of births in Kansas happen at\r\nhospitals that have adopted those five evidence-based maternity care practices,\r\nhe says. The fund, working in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Health\r\nand Environment, is helping Kansas hospitals to adopt the complete list of 10\r\nWHO-recommended practices as a second stage of the work, he says.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The fund\u2019s current\r\nNeuroNurture campaign addresses early childhood toxic stress that can\r\nnegatively \u201crewire\u201d the brain in lasting ways and predispose the body to\r\nchronic disease later in life. For this campaign, the United Methodist Health\r\nMinistry Fund has joined with four other Kansas grant-makers \u2014 Kansas Health\r\nFoundation, Wyandotte Health Foundation, REACH Healthcare Foundation and\r\nHutchinson Community Foundation. With the NeuroNurture campaign, early\r\nchildhood advocacy groups are implementing a best-practice program of 10 home\r\nvisits for parents of children ages 6 months to 2 years to give them techniques\r\nto help reduce the impact of stressors in their children\u2019s lives.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cAll young children in\r\nKansas should have the opportunity to develop strong emotional and social\r\ncharacteristics,\u201d Moore says of the initiative.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Healthcare delivery\r\nsystems in rural areas continue to be important to ensure there is patient\r\naccess and provider viability. The fund has formed a rural health network with\r\neight western Kansas hospitals to create shared opportunities to learn and\r\nimplement programs. The fund\u2019s Healthy Congregations initiative supports United\r\nMethodist churches in organizing effective congregational health ministries to\r\nhelp community members. More than 70 communities in Kansas and Nebraska have\r\nsuch assets, according to the fund.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s first president, retired at the end of January. David Jordan, former executive director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, is the new president. 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