The KC Health Collaborative’s first-of-its-kind Health Scorecard has been featured in The Beacon, a trusted Kansas City-based media outlet.
The Beacon article, titled “Kansas City Just Got a New Health Care Report Card. Spoiler: It Has Room to Improve,” highlights the pressing need for data-driven solutions in tackling health disparities. The KC Health Collaborative Scorecard is a first step in providing concrete data on healthcare gaps and rising costs to equip policymakers and business leaders with tools to act.
From the article:
“Nothing tosses people into bankruptcy as regularly as health bills. A fourth of us skip care because of the cost.
We understand the failures of our health care system intuitively — and it’s reinforced anecdotally. But the hard data of how that plays out in Kansas City has been missing.
Now KC Health Collaborative is beginning to fill in the hard, tough facts about how the medical system we live in is letting us down.
“People are always happy to convene and fuss over a problem,” said Dan Cranshaw, executive director of the health collaborative. “But we want to be able to say, ‘What’s our next step going to be? Who needs to be at the table? And how do we move forward?’”
This month, KC Health Collaborative released a scorecard it says will provide a starting point for solving health inequities in Kansas City. It hopes that offering concrete information about specific gaps and identifying who slips through them gives policy makers and business leaders tools to make changes.”
Read the full article here: https://thebeaconnews.org/stories/2024/12/30/kc-group-wants-to-put-data-behind-the-stories-of-health-inequities/