As President and CEO at Health Forward Foundation for more than five years, Qiana Thomason has continued to impact the community health of Kansas City – something she’s been doing for more than 20 years. While she was influencing the community and earning leadership expertise in other ways early in her career, the time Thomason …
National Breastfeeding Month is celebrated every August to spread awareness and promote the benefits of breastfeeding. Swope Health’s Women, Infants, and Children Special Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC) supports breastfeeding in a variety of ways. Jennifer Jones, Swope Health’s breastfeeding peer counselor who assists prenatal patients daily with their breastfeeding needs recognizes the advantages of breastfeeding. …
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Swope Health is proud to announce that it has received seven Community Health Quality Recognition awards from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration! The awards are based on improvements in data as logged in the latest Uniform Data System reporting period, focusing on areas of access, clinical quality, health equity, and health information technology. …
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Growing up in the 1950s, Phyllis Stevens recognized the social inequalities that people of color faced and grew passionate about addressing those issues. Stevens started off as an educator before coming to Swope Health (called Swope Parkway Health Center at the time), where she used her talents and skills for special event fundraising. In 1993, …
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Since her family relocated to Kansas City in the early 1980s, Kimiko Black Gilmore has fallen in love with the city. She’s dedicated her career to the Kansas City community, and currently holds the dual role of deputy city manager and executive director of convention and entertainment facilities in her third stint working for the …
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Dianne Cleaver dedicated nearly half of a century to working in the Kansas City community, with the longest tenure of her career at Swope Health. While here, she learned lots about the healthcare field and gained valuable experience that opened doors to many more prominent positions. Roots at Swope Health Cleaver began her Swope Health …
May is designated as Hepatitis Awareness Month, which helps raise awareness of the disease and encourages those to learn their status. Swope Health started the Hepatitis C program in 2019, which has seen a significant increase in patient-count over the years. Rachel Melson, DNP, FNP C is the Director of the Swope Health Outreach Clinic …
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Sonja Bachus has a passion for serving the community, and that’s exactly what she’s done over the last two-plus decades in the health care field. The newly appointed Chief Experience Officer of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) has worked her way up in the industry, which includes being the CEO of two …
Kim Riley is a visionary innovator who has a passion for helping people – especially thosewith disabilities. She’s the founder and CEO of The Transition Academy and North Star Solutions, which are designed to help disabled students and theirfamilies. Riley has an impressive resume with stops all around Kansas City, and it all started at …
From 1990 to 2015, Swope Health patients had the privilege of being served by Dr. James True. He started off as a psychiatrist for six years before holding the chief of psychiatry position until retirement, along with two short stints as interim medical officer when the role was vacant. The early years Dr. True kicked …
