Programs Funded

Prime Health Foundation has funded a variety of health-care related programs, primarily to benefit the Kansas City metropolitan area; however, the Foundation has funded programs with national scope. Examples of projects the Foundation has funded are:

• funding consultant-facilitator for Metropolitan Health Council, a coalition of public health leaders, physicians, health insurers and others to identify approaches to improving the health of area residents
  
• domestic violence public awareness campaign, support of hospital advocacy services for battered women and revision of domestic violence treatment protocol for use in local emergency rooms
  
• in cooperation with the American Association of Health Plans, research to find effective methods of coordinating care for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes
  
• development of a training course for nurse practitioners at Kansas University which has become a national model
  
• in cooperation with The Commonwealth Fund of New York and local funders in twenty other cities across the United States, implementation of Healthy Steps (originally with Humana HealthCare Plan and now with Swope Parkway Health Center). Healthy Steps offers an enriched system of care for young children and their families with an emphasis on developmental assessment of the children and good parenting advice for families.
  
• seminars in managed care principles and practices for nursing school faculty from all local nursing schools, sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Nursing
  
• under the direction of the Tufts Managed Care Institute of Boston and with the participation of all three local medical schools, instructions and materials for medical school faculties in how to include principles of effective patient-care management in medical school curricula