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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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