Sunflower Health Plan, Centene Foundation and KU Endowment Announce $500,000 Grant to the Kansas Nursing Workforce Center
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Funding to Help Address Imbalances in Kansas Healthcare WorkforceLENEXA, Kan., Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunflower Health Plan ("Sunflower"), a managed care organization established to deliver quality healthcare in the state of Kansas and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC), the Centene Foundation and KU Endowment today announced a new partnership that includes a $500,000 grant to the Kansas Nursing Workforce Center to build a centralized data collection and exchange system.The project is one part of Sunflowers strategy to help address shortages in healthcare workforce staff across multiple specialties within Kansas, but especially in rural areas where services can be difficult to access. "This gift enables us to build a central source for nursing workforce information, something our stakeholders requested during our statewide listening sessions. People asked us to collect and analyze specific information to help them solve the chronic supply and demand imbalance found in the Kansas nursing workforce, and this data warehouse will make that possible. "We provide nursing services to severely injured and chronically ill pediatric and adult patients in their homes, so I see the amazing impact nurses make every day in Kansas," said Matt Johnston, director of business operations at Maxim Healthcare Services. Sunflower is committed to improving the health of its beneficiaries through focused, compassionate, and coordinated care in an approach based on the core belief that quality healthcare is best delivered locally.