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Valerie Chow, a retired anesthesiologist, finishes vaccinating a patient at Friendship Baptist Church in March. The church is located in the 64128 zip code, which is included in the new initiative.
The project will focus on six east side Kansas City zip codes where vaccination rates remain low, especially among minority populations.
Jackson County is launching a $5 million initiative to address vaccine hesitancy and health inequities on Kansas City s east side.
The Jackson County Legislature approved use of CARES Act funding on Monday to go to the partnership, which includes Truman Medical Centers, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Black Health Care Coalition.
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Hayat Abdullahi (left) and Innovation and Judith Navarro (right) walk through the River Market to visit businesses and inquire about whether employees have been vaccinated for COVID-19.
Members of TMC s Community Health Strategies and Innovation team fanned out along the trolley route Monday looking for shops where employees might need COVID-19 vaccinations.
Hayat Abdullahi says people are busy.
That’s one of the main obstacles keeping them from getting vaccinated for COVID-19.
And it’s also one of the reasons members of the Truman Medical Centers’ Community Health Strategies and Innovation team were pounding the sidewalks on Monday in Kansas City, ducking into shops and restaurants along the streetcar route.
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Midwest Transplant Network sent a letter to families notifying them that it suffered a ransomware attack in February.
The attackers were able to obtain some personal health information about deceased donors and organ recipients, including names, dates of birth and types of organ donation or transplantation procedures.
Families of organ, eye and tissue donors are receiving letters this week from the Midwest Transplant Network informing them of a data breach affecting more than 17,000 individuals.
The breach, a malicious ransomware attack, occurred in February and locked Midwest Transplant Network out of its files for a brief period before it was able to regain access.
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