KCUMB and GenKC present “Grow To CEO” Part II: Universal Compassion

Is that sore throat keeping you up all night? Looking for high quality, compassionate and affordable healthcare in Kansas City? A seven minute zig-zag stroll southeast of the Kansas City University Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) campus takes you to the newly renovated Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center (SURHC) Downtown Campus, one of the eight locations of SURHC. Part II of this series highlights SURHC and CEO, Hilda Fuentes.

“You have to be intentional.”  

Hilda Fuentes, CEO SURHC

The KCUMB teaching staff and their students work with SURHC. This collaboration gives clinical experience to KCUMB and helps to expand SURHC services provided to the KC community.

Dr. Samuel U. Rodgers anchored in “compassionate and affordable health care to the Kansas City community.” In 1967, the Health Center was the fourth federally recognized health center in the US and the first center opening in Missouri. (See http://rodgershealth.org/?page=about-us-history-of-dr-samuel-u-rodgers-health-center.)

Hilda Fuentes (@samuelurodgers)
at GenKC’s “Grow to CEO” panel

A transformational force behind SURHC since 2005 is CEO, Hilda Fuentes. Fuentes has academic training in both Public and Business Administration, executive level background in KC area hospice care and was Director of Development of Cabot Westside, which joined SURHC in 2013. (See http://rodgershealth.org/?page=about-us-leadership.)

Fuentes is managing SURHC changes, which include new facilities and partnerships to service 7200 more patients. She led a successful three year, $25.1 million fundraising campaign.

As part of the “Grow To CEO” panel, Fuentes gave her take on building a culture in the workplace.

KCUMB and GenKC present “Grow To CEO”: Part I

“A well kept secret …,

KCUMB is one of the leading medical universities

in Missouri.”

KCUMB and GenKC
present “Grow To CEO”

The Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) and GenKC presented “Grow to CEO” in the state of the art, Academic Center of the KCUMB campus on Friday, November 14.

Kansas Citians know that KC is one of the best kept secrets in the US for leadership in many areas. The well kept secret to most of the nearly 100 event attendees in the audience was, 100 year old KCUMB is one of the leading medical universities in Missouri.

How do you keep that a secret?

Dr. Marc B. Hahn (@KCUMBpresident)
at GenKC’s “Grow to CEO” panel

Dr. Marc B. Hahn, 14th President and Chief Executive Officer of KCUMB, and his staff are working to make these facts known to the public.

“KC is a fantastic place,” said Hahn. When people hear about what’s going on here, both the city and the university will be “able to recruit the best and the brightest,” he said.

Hahn’s background includes a wealth of training, various national commissions, agencies and organizations. He served as “site inspector for medical school accreditation for the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation, and as anesthesiologist for two US Presidents, Ronald Regan and George H.W. Bush.” (http://www.kcumb.edu/about/who-we-are/leadership/office-of-the-president/)

These credentials give Hahn an edge in recognizing the potential he sees in KC and KCUMB, as well as for sharing insights on the GenKC “Grow to CEO” panel.