Swope Health announces a new edition of its podcast, One on One with Swope Health, featuring Ruth Ramsey, editor and publisher of Our Health Matters. Eric Wesson, founder and publisher of The Next Page KC, a newspaper focused on the Black community, hosts the show’s conversations with Kansas Citians about issues of importance to the …
Swope Health invites you to join our Black History speaker series, a lunchtime virtual meeting, featuring civic and community leaders. Each of the four weekly events is free and open to the public. The first event in the speaker series was held Thursday, Feb. 8, with Mickey Dean, a member of the Kansas City Reparations Coalition. …
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Swope Health is proud to announce the first in its series of 2024 Town Halls on the social drivers of healthcare: An evening in conversation with Ebony Reed, journalist and author of Fifteen Cents on the Dollar, How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap, a new book on the history of economic inequity. Jeron Ravin, …
The following appointments were recently made to Swope Health’s Senior Leadership Team: Josette Mitchell named Executive Vice President of Behavioral Health Josette Mitchell, who has served as Chief Operating Officer for Swope Health since 2021, was named Executive Vice President of Behavioral Health, effective January 8. Mitchell joined Swope Health in 2002, working in various …
Swope Health announces the addition of podiatrist Dr. Heather Newhard to our family of care professionals. Here’s a bit more information about her, in her own words. Tell us a bit about your background. I am a Board-Certified Podiatric Physician with more than a decade of service in the non-profit sector of healthcare. Before …
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On Jan. 8, Swope Health Hickman Mills—a full-spectrum family medical clinic offering pediatric care, prenatal care, preventive medicine, acute care and chronic disease management for all ages—will begin providing services from a newly built, state-of-the-art facility at 6406 E. 87th St., Kansas City, Mo. A ribbon cutting event for the new location is scheduled for …
Swope Health announces a new edition of its podcast, One on One with Swope Health, featuring the Rev. Dr. Wallace S. Hartsfield II, pastor of the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Kansas City. Eric Wesson, founder and publisher of The Next Page KC, a newspaper focused on the Black community, hosts the show’s conversations with …
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Swope Health and University Health have been quietly knocking down boundaries to provide rapid response to 988 mental health crisis calls in the Kansas City area. The local partnership has produced a Mobile Care Team, jointly staffed and managed, to respond to calls to the 988 hotline – the national suicide prevention lifeline. The partnership …
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Leavenworth, Kan. (Dec. 8, 2023) – Swope Health, a leading provider of comprehensive healthcare services in the Kansas City metro area, is pleased to announce that Drs. Heidgen and Mills, a pediatric clinic in Leavenworth serving approximately 4,600 patients, will join Swope Health, effective December 11. Dr. Debra Heidgen and Dr. Vernon Mills, two highly …
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Swope Health invites you to visit our 2023 Holiday Mart from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, in the activity rooms at Building C, Swope Health Central, 3801 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The event is free and open to all. The holiday mart features local retailers, designers, chefs selling their items, …
