Month: November 2014

REACH Foundation awards more than $1 million to health, advocacy organizations

by KHI News Service
The REACH Healthcare Foundation recently announced grants to 17 health care and advocacy organizations and rural health coalitions to support their general operations in 2015.

The foundation approved $1,075,000 in core operating grants to nonprofit organizations considered to be essential contributors to the region’s health care safety net system. The grants can be used for personnel, equipment, technology and other business expenses, and vary based on the organization’s operating budget.

Organizations receiving $55,000 grants: Cass County Community Health Foundation, The Missouri Budget Project, Missouri Coalition for Oral Health, Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance, Oral Health Kansas Inc., and Thrive Allen County Inc.

Organizations receiving $65,000 grants: Duchesne Clinic, Health Care Coalition of Lafayette County, Health Partnership Clinic of Johnson County, Kansas Action for Children, Silver City Health Center, Turner House Children’s Clinic, Communities Creating Opportunity and Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved.

Organizations receiving $75,000 grants: Comprehensive Mental Health Services Inc., Kansas City CARE Clinic and Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare.

Based in Merriam, Kan., REACH is a charitable organization that provides grants and other support to improve health care access and quality. It serves six counties in Missouri and Kansas.

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Student from Bonner Springs to be a soloist at concert

A student from Bonner Springs, Ashley Muldoon, is one of the soloists at an upcoming University of Saint Mary Christmas concert.

The public is invited to the annual Christmas Vespers Concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, in the Annunciation Chapel on the Saint Mary Leavenworth campus, 4100 S. 4th St. There is no charge to attend. Seating is limited, so early arrival is suggested.

The Vespers Concert features the University Concert Chorale under the direction of William Krusemark, chair of the university’s fine arts department, and the Bells of Saint Mary Handbell Choir, under the direction of Freda Proctor, director of the university’s instrumental musical studies.

The concert’s featured work is American composer Daniel Pinkham’s “Christmas Cantata,” accompanied by brass and organ. The program also will include traditional and modern arrangements of English carols for bells and choir with harp accompaniment.

Other USM student soloists will include Hayley Webb, junior, Basehor, Kan., and Wila Figueroa, sophomore, Lansing, Kan.