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Women’s Health in Missouri: Going in the Wrong Direction
When Governor Mike Parson signed House Bill 126 into law on May 24th, he stated this action signaled that Missouri stands for protecting women’s health. This law is just the latest action that flies in the face of a preponderance of evidence, conflicts with widespread consensus among health professionals, and will, in fact, be harmful,…
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Pre-existing Conditions: Is poverty on the list?
Pre-existing conditions, a term of art in the health insurance industry, has garnered widespread attention recently. What began in the 1930s as a list of diseases or conditions used to not enroll people most likely to use health insurance became a staple of profitable health insurance businesses. The industry benefits financially from enrolling healthier people,…
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MFH Program Director Accepts Position as President and CEO in Rochester, NY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health (314) 345-5505 cstewart@mffh.org MFH Program Director Accepts Position as President and CEO in Rochester, NY Matthew A. Kuhlenbeck named new head of Greater Rochester Health Foundation ST. LOUIS, MO (November 15, 2018) – Missouri Foundation for Health officially announces the resignation of Program Director Matthew…
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Leveling the Playing Field: Fairness and Health
Growing up, my sense of fairness came from two things. The first is sports. My dad was a coach. He coached football, basketball, and track during the school year and gave swimming lessons in the summer. I grew up in small towns in central Illinois – Lincoln, Gibson City, Kankakee – and then we moved…
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New Partnership Established to Reduce St. Louis City’s Incarceration Rate and Improve Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health cstewart@mffh.org (314) 345-5505 New Partnership Established to Reduce St. Louis City’s Incarceration Rate and Improve Health ST. LOUIS, MO (August 5, 2018) – Recognizing the long-term negative health effects that high incarceration rates have on communities, Missouri Foundation for Health has formed a new partnership with…
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Family Values Mean Valuing Families
The plight of thousands of migrant children separated from their parents has dominated recent media cycles, capturing the country’s outrage over a fundamental challenge to American values. Two recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, “The Suffering of Children” and “Housing Immigrant Children – The Inhumanity of Constant Illumination,” forcefully document the mental…
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A Shattering Week
If ever there was time to discuss suicide, it was the week of June 4th. That Tuesday brought the news that fashion designer Kate Spade had taken her own life. On Friday, with Spade’s death still fresh on our minds, we were rocked by the suicide of celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain. Then, as…
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Missouri Foundation for Health Launches The Net Benefit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health cstewart@mffh.org (314) 345-5505 Missouri Foundation for Health Launches The Net Benefit Campaign to lift up Missourians’ stories about the importance of meeting basic needs ST. LOUIS, MO (June 26, 2018) – Missouri Foundation for Health has launched The Net Benefit, a campaign to educate Missourians…
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Program Officer Jean Freeman-Crawford Honored with Emerging Leader Fellowship
We’re proud to share the news that Foundation Program Officer Jean Freeman-Crawford has been named a 2018 Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy fellow! Founded by Grantmakers in Health (GIH), with additional support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the purpose of the fellowship is to “nurture talented practitioners who have shown…
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Why the American Health Care Act is the Wrong Medicine
American health care is sick. It is a big, complicated, vitally important part of American society – it is woven into our culture, our values, our economy, our communities, our births, our deaths, and our daily lives. It has the enormous charge of keeping us healthy, healing our ills, and easing our transitions into and…
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Michael Brown, Ferguson, and Health
Two years ago today, the shooting death of Michael Brown astounded a nation, and forever changed the way that we talk about race and health in America. The Ferguson Commission’s report, which was released last September, suggested that health disparities were a key factor in the unrest that began after Brown’s death. The report suggests…
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Strengthening the Health Field: Welcoming Our Program Fellows
June 6th marked the arrival of two new program fellows at the Foundation, and for the first time they are joining us for two full years. Nava Kantor and Tracy Sexton, both recent graduates of master’s programs in the St. Louis area, will gain hands-on experience in the wide variety of work underway at MFH. “This is…