Strategic Focus: Access to Health Care

Background

Since it was founded, the Health Fund has supported efforts to make health care accessible to all Kansans. Through our strategic planning process, our trustees adopted a bold goal reflecting our values and our hopes: health care should be available to all Kansans.

The reasons run the gamut from social justice to economics. Access to health care is good for people and families and it is good for Kansas.

The issues surrounding access to care are complex and are being addressed in a variety of ways. The Health Fund will support steps toward access for all in cooperation with the efforts of others by providing planning resources, advocacy support, and policy development.

Efforts to assure all Kansas children have health coverage is a priority. Increasing the capacity of clinics offering low-income Kansans services on a sliding-scale fee is also a goal of access to health care.

2007-2009 Goal:

Achieve universal access to health care in Kansas

Objectives

• Support health care coverage for all Kansas children through planning, advocacy, and policy development
• Expand the safety net capacity of Kansas
• Attract and support innovative ideas to improve access to health care in Kansas