Congratulations to SURHC, our client, and KCUMB on a New Partnership

Posted by Van Osdol & Magruder

We’d like to congratulate our client, the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center (SURHC), on its recent coalition with the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB). This collaborative partnership will bring Missouri’s largest medical school and its first Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) together. In a press release, Hilda Fuentes, CEO of SURHC, said, “This partnership is an exceptional opportunity for both of our organizations. It advances both organizations’ missions to ensure healthier people in a healthy community—which was the vision of our founder Samuel U. Rodgers, MD, 45 years ago. Ultimately, the beneficiaries of this partnership will be our patients who will receive the highest quality care available.” Starting Oct. 1, 2013, a group of board-certified primary care physicians from KCUMB will provide medical services at SURHC’s new location in downtown Kansas City. Osteopathic medical students from the school will also participate in clinical training activities there. According to Marc B. Hahn, D.O., president and chief executive officer for KCUMB, “We are two institutions with like missions and a common focus – to improve the well-being and health of our community. Individually, KCUMB and Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center make enormous impacts in the northeast community. It’s exciting to anticipate how, together, we will provide even better access to clinical services and address health disparities that exist within our own community,” he said.

Read more on the Kansas City Star.