New Report: Child Poverty Highest Among Hispanics
Resources and Reports The Pew Hispanic Center has released a report, “The Toll of the Great Recession: Child Poverty Among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads Nation.” Click here to read more about health...
View ArticleCabot Earns Medical Home Designation
Announcements Cabot Westside Health and Dental Center, part of St. Luke’s Health System, in December received top-level national designation as a Patient-Centered Medical Home. Cabot is one of eight...
View ArticleSamuel U. Rodgers Health Center Opens New Facility
Announcements Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center opened its new $25.1 million facility last week, located at 825 Euclid in Kansas City, Missouri, just across the street from its old facility. Read The...
View ArticleEleven Organizations Selected To Participate in Cultural Competency Initiative
FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE MERRIAM, KANSAS – Eleven Greater Kansas City area health and social service organizations will receive a year of technical assistance to help the organizations improve their...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading at REACH
New Feature: What we’re reading at REACH In our work, we come across a number of news items and reports related to REACH Foundation’s funding priorities and strategic goals. “What we’re reading” is a...
View ArticleReport: Dental Crisis in America, The Need to Expand Access
Resources & Reports The report, Dental Crisis in America: The Need to Expand Access, was released and reviewed at the Senate Committee on Health, Labor and Pension’s Subcommittee on Primary Health...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading at REACH
New Feature: What we’re reading at REACH In our work, we come across a number of news items and reports related to the REACH Foundation’s funding priorities and strategic goals. “What we’re reading at...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading at REACH
Feature: What we’re reading at REACH In our work, we come across a number of news items and reports related to the REACH Foundation’s funding priorities and strategic goals. “What we’re reading at...
View ArticlePBS Frontline to Air Feature “Dollars and Dentists”
Announcement On June 26, 2012, Frontline (PBS) will feature “Dollars and Dentists.” The show description is: “Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans can’t afford a...
View ArticleHealth Equity Program on Putting Disparity Data into Action
Community Event The Missouri Health Equity Collaborative, in partnership with the US Department of Health & Human Services Region VII Office of Minority Health and the REACH Healthcare Foundation,...
View ArticleRegion VII Health Equity Council Releases Disparities Report
Resources and Reports The Heartland Regional Health Equity Council (RHEC), an advisory group representative of health and diversity leaders who work in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
View ArticleFrom the President and CEO: Safety Nets’ Journey to Becoming Medical Homes
Message from the President and CEO April 22, 2014 Seven years ago, the REACH Foundation convened a group of health leaders, clinic directors, hospital executives and foundation leaders to examine the...
View ArticleTask Force Plan Focuses on At-Risk Children and Youth
Resources and Report The Children and Youth Project Team of the Homelessness Task Force of Greater Kansas City, with assistance from the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), has developed an investment...
View ArticleREACH CEO Emphasizes Power of Oral Health Integration
Reports and Publications On June 25, Health Affairs’ GrantWatch blog published an essay by REACH President and CEO Brenda Sharpe and two health foundation colleagues, who discussed a new project that...
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