Foundation to Visit Lebanon to Hear Community Health Needs
St. Louis, Aug 13 -The Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) will hold a public health forum in Lebanon on Tuesday, August 28 from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the Mills Community Center, 650 Mills Drive.
The forum will introduce MFH to the community and solicit feedback from attendees on the unmet health care needs in their area. Invitees include individual health care consumers and providers from communities in Dallas, Camden, Pulaski, Laclede, Wright, Webster and Texas counties. The local co-sponsor for the forum is the Cowan Civic Center. Information gathered from the forum will aid the Missouri Foundation for Health in future strategic grantmaking efforts.
Sam Allen, Community Service Director for the Cowan Civic Center said, "We're encouraging everyone in the community to come out to this forum. We can learn and share with each other and the Foundation on how to meet the health needs we face here. "
Forums have been held this year in Ironton, Washington, Jefferson City, Kennett, Bowling Green, Macon and Joplin, Mo. Other forums being planned this year include Mountain View and St. Louis, Mo.
The MFH region encompasses 84 northern and southern counties and the City of St. Louis. Established in January of 2000, it is the largest health care foundation in the state and one of the ten largest in the country. Its mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves. The Foundation will give grant awards in excess of $35 million to health-related efforts in 2003.
For additional information regarding MFH, contact the Foundation toll free at (800) 655-5560 or visit the Web site at www.mffh.org.
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