In March, the REACH Healthcare Foundation Board of Directors elected six individuals, including three new community members, with diverse professional experience and community backgrounds to begin their board terms on June 1. As the newly-elected members assume their role as a REACH trustee, we would like to introduce each of them as part of our … Continued
The REACH Healthcare Foundation team is grieving for our Black colleagues, friends and neighbors as they struggle with their shock and pain over the cruel loss of life of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade—names recently added to the long list of Black men and women who have lost their lives through police violence. … Continued
While businesses, local governments, families and other groups grapple with the health, social and economic effects of COVID-19, many people and community groups are looking to the health and human services sector for help and direction. REACH Foundation staff has reached out to longtime partners to hear how their work has changed and encourage them … Continued
While businesses, local governments, families and other community groups grapple with the substantial and harmful effects of COVID-19, many people and community groups are looking to the health and social services sector for services, emergency help and direction. Since the early years of the REACH Foundation’s start, the foundation has remained firm in its commitment … Continued
The REACH Foundation this week announced grants totaling $399,000 to nine organizations that use care connector services to help low-income and medically underserved individuals secure the care they need. In keeping with the foundation’s recent decision to simplify grant application and decision processes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, REACH awarded the 12-month grants based … Continued
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented strain on our region’s health and human service safety net. We are aware of, and gravely concerned about its impact on our region’s nonprofit partners and the clients they serve. Many health and human services organizations are rightly concerned about the mounting pressures on their services, staff members … Continued
The safety and well-being of our REACH Foundation colleagues, community partners and the public remain our highest priority as the negative impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) rapidly become more pronounced across the Kansas City region. At REACH, we are looking to experts such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, so that we are … Continued
The 2020 state legislative sessions in Kansas and Missouri are nearing the halfway point, and we are seeing continuing, strong public support for consideration of Medicaid expansion — a policy priority at the top of the foundation’s policy agenda. In Kansas, health systems leaders, health advocates and chambers of commerce from across the state have … Continued
The REACH Foundation is continually impressed with the bright ideas that come from our partners, and we want to share these smart ideas with others. Here is an idea that comes from our partners at the Health Care Coalition (HCC) of Lafayette County, a health care collaborative and network serving Lafayette County, Mo., and surrounding … Continued
This week the Trump Administration released a new immigration rule that radically changes the policy that determines how certain immigrants become permanent residents. The new Department of Homeland Security rule, which goes into effect on October 15, will now link an individual’s immigration status to their income and their use of public benefits, such as … Continued
