09 Jun Baptist Trinity Lutheran Legacy Foundation Receives $240,000 Grant from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City

Baptist Trinity Lutheran Legacy Foundation (BTLLF) was recently awarded a $240,000 grant from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (now the Health Forward Foundation), Safety Net to support the Kansas City’s Medicine Cabinet.

Kansas City’s Medicine Cabinet (KCMC) began in 2005. The program partners with existing social service agencies to provide access to crisis-related medical services using a voucher system. The program is unique in that no other program in the region provides access to so many different types of services with such a broad geographic impact.

The Kansas City’s Medicine Cabinet provides emergency medical assistance to low-income individuals experiencing a short-term medical crisis. One-hundred percent (100%) of these funds will be used to provide direct services to clients. The Medicine Cabinet works through existing social service agencies to provide vouchers clients can take to participating providers to receive the needed medical services.

BTLLF works to provide support in the greater Kansas City area for crisis related medical assistance, neighborhood school health grants, and health education programs and services. They seek philanthropic support for these areas of emphasis. BTLLF seeks to continue the tradition and religious heritage of the founders and donors of Baptist Medical Center and Trinity Lutheran Hospital and their Foundations.