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Overview and Project
Goals | Children and Families Served
| Healthy Steps for Young Children |
Community Outreach | Evaluation
The Children and Families Served
Swope serves more than 55,000 low-to-moderate income men, women, and
children in the Greater Kansas City area in five clinic locations. Many
patients are employed, yet uninsured. Nearly half of children who
receive care at Swope live below
federal poverty
levels. Of these children, 42% are Medicaid patients and 51% are
uninsured.
About 20,000 additional uninsured or underinsured children who have not
been receiving regular EPSDT visits or regular preventive care in
general have been identified in several distressed areas of Kansas City.
Many of these children have been receiving primary care in emergency
departments for problems that could have been prevented or better
managed through well-child care.
These communities will be the focus of outreach and education efforts, with
the aim of bringing in a substantial number of new pediatric patients
from them. Some characteristics of the communities are:
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Of the total population of over 116,000, about 68%
are Black or African American, 27% are White, 3% are Hispanic, and 2%
are of other races or ethnicities.
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Of over 35,500 families living in this area, about
16% live in poverty.
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The service area is a
Medically Underserved Area, High Impact Area,
Health Professional Shortage
Area, and serves
Medically Underserved Populations.
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Date: September 20,
2005
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities
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