Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City

About Us

History

2010

  • January – HCF Board of Directors selects Norman Siegel as the new Chair and Sylvia Robinson as Vice Chair.

2009

  • January – HCF Board of Directors selects Larry Blankinship as the new Chair and Norman Siegel as Vice Chair.
  • May - HCF awards $4 million in Healthy Lifestyles Grants
  • May - HCF award $1 million grant to PE4LIFE
  • July - HCF awards Aim4Peace $300,000 grant
  • July - HCF awards $6 million in mental health grants
  • September - HCF/REACH awards $700,000 to allow safety  net clinics to operate after-hours
  • September - HCF awards TMC $338,872 grant for improving chronic care services for low-income patients
  • November - HCF Awards $6.5 million in Safety Net Grants
  • November- HCF announces the remainder of a total of 92 Applicant Defined Grants totaling $4.3 million awarded throughout the year.

2008

  • January – HCF Board of Directors selects Mary Lou Jaramillo as the new Chair and Larry Blankinship as Vice Chair.
  • May - HCF awards $8 million in mental health grants
  • May - HCF awards its largest single grant, a $7.5 million to Truman Medical Centers to increase inpatient bed capacity
  • August - HCF receives a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations' Partners Investing in Nursings Future (PIN) initiative to create a new Bi-State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center
  • September- HCF announces the remainder of a total of 75 Applicant Defined Grants totaling $4.2 million awarded throughout the year.
  • November- HCF awards $7 million in safety net health care grants
  • November - HCF awards PE4life a $400,000 grant for a pilot project to incorporate its program into 20 schools in the Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS school district
  • November - Kenny Southwick elected Chair of the Community Advisory Committee

2007

  • January - HCF Board of Directors approves $200,000 for a three-year Oral Health Initiative to improve the oral health of children ages birth to six.
  • March – HCF Board of Directors approves $131,322 for a three-year Midwest Health Journalism Fellowship. HCF, the REACH Healthcare Foundation, Missouri Foundation for Health, Kansas Health Foundation, the Sunflower Foundation and the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund begins a bi-state, Midwest Health Journalism Fellowship to educate key journalists about critical health issues.
  • May – HCF awards $7 million in mental health grants.
  • May – HCF awards a $2 million grant ensures that all females ages 9-26 within the service area have access to the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.
  • July – HCF awards $5.7 million safety net grants.
  • August – Robert Austin Coker elected Chair of the Community Advisory Committee.
  • November – HCF awards $4.2 million in healthy lifestyles grants.
  • November - HCF announces the remainder of a total of 60 Applicant Defined Grants totaling $2.85 million awarded throughout the year.

2006

  • January – HCF Board of Directors selects Gurnie Gunter as the new Chair of the Board and Mary Lou Jaramillo as Vice Chair.
  • March – HCF awards $5.7 million in mental health grants.
  • July – HCF awards $4 million in safety net grants.
  • July – HCF Board of Directors approves $500,000 for a three-year bi-state Nursing Initiative focused on assessing the impact the national nursing shortage has on the metro area and what can be done to deal with the challenge. 
  • July– HCF receives an additional $40.5 million from the Community Health Group (CHG).
  • November – HCF awards $3 million in healthy lifestyle grants.
  • November– HCF Board of Directors approves $380,000 for a two-year grant to the Mid America Regional Council to address barriers that interfere with access to health care services for the medically indigent and underserved.
  • December – HCF awards a total of $1,344,354 in Applicant Defined Grants throughout the year.

2005

  • August – Norman Siegel elected as Chair of the Community Advisory Committee and Ken Stremming as Vice Chair.
  • June – HCF awards $3.3 million in safety net grants.
  • October – HCF awards $2.4 in healthy lifestyle grants.
  • September– HCF receives an additional $773,136 from the Community Health Group (CHG).
  • December – HCF awards a total of $ 783,208 in Applicant Defined Grants throughout the year.

2004

  • January – HCF recognized as a 501(c) (3)  public charity by the IRS.
  • January – Community Advisory Committee holds its first meeting. Bob Glaicer elected as Chair of the CAC and Norman Siegel elected as Vice Chair.
  • June – HCF receives approximately $400.5 million from the Community Health Group (CHG) as its share of the net proceeds from the sale of Health Midwest to HCA.
  • October – Steve Roling is hired as the first President/CEO and begins working at HCF in December.


2003

  • July - HCF Articles of Incorporation
  • September – Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon appoints the inaugural 25-person HCF Board of Directors. Dr. Harry Jonas named first Chair of the HCF board and Gurnie Gunter named Vice Chair.

2002
Health Midwest, a regional nonprofit health care provider which owned or leased 11 general acute care and behavioral health centers in Missouri and Kansas, enters into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). The Attorneys General of Kansas and Missouri secure the assets from the sale and establish two healthcare conversion foundations – the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City and the REACH Healthcare Foundation. Based on a court-approved settlement agreement, HCF will incorporate in Missouri and receive 80 percent of the assets while the REACH Foundation, will incorporate in Kansas and receive 20 percent of the net proceeds.