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Community health workers serving greater roles in health care

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Access to Health Care
By Mike Sherry for KHI News Service, April 30, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – At Truman Medical Centers, it was a chronic patient who berated nurses and, in one instance, draped his room with the contents of his food tray.

At the Kansas City CARE Clinic, it was a woman with diabetes who would not take her medication.

The link between the two is that they both received help from outreach specialists known as community health workers. A local group is working to make that type of help more prevalent in the metropolitan area.

The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City is proud to partner with the KHI News Service to provide weekly health stories about health and policy issues impacting the greater Kansas City region. Because it is committed to objective coverage, HCF exercises no editorial control over the content. The KHI News Service is an editorially independent initiative of the Kansas Health Institute.

Program offers free mental health first aid training to public

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Mental Health
KCTV, April 30, 2013
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Program offers free mental health first aid training to public

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How Obamacare Might Change Your Private Health Insurance

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Health Reform
KCUR, April 25, 2013
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How Obamacare Might Change Your Private Health Insurance

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Many workers aren't ready for health care reform

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Health Reform
Kansas City Star, April 24, 2013
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Many workers aren't ready for health care reform

The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City is proud to partner with the KHI News Service to provide weekly health stories about health and policy issues impacting the greater Kansas City region. Because it is committed to objective coverage, HCF exercises no editorial control over the content. The KHI News Service is an editorially independent initiative of the Kansas Health Institute.

Millions eligible for Obamacare subsidies, but most don't know it

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Health Reform
WDAF Fox 4, April 23, 2013
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Millions eligible for Obamacare subsidies, but most don't know it

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Spokesman: Without additional funding mental health centers can't do more

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Mental Health
KHI News, April 25, 2013
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Spokesman: Without additional funding mental health centers can't do more

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Reducing canceled appointments improves finances for mental health providers

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Mental Health
By Mike Sherry for KHI News Service, April 25, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Reducing no-shows is one of the most significant ways mental health providers can improve their finances, a practice improvement expert said in a Wednesday presentation at the Mid-America Regional Council offices.

Bringing more people in the door means more reimbursements – not to mention providing better service to the patient, said David Swann, a consultant who also serves as chief clinical officer for Partners Behavioral Health Management, a managed care organization based in Gastonia, N.C.

The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City is proud to partner with the KHI News Service to provide weekly health stories about health and policy issues impacting the greater Kansas City region. Because it is committed to objective coverage, HCF exercises no editorial control over the content. The KHI News Service is an editorially independent initiative of the Kansas Health Institute.