Cerner Charitable Foundation
• Together, we are creating healthier tomorrows and building stronger communities.
Mission
To improve the health of individuals through innovative models
Ruling year
1996
Principal Officer
Mrs. Shanna Adamic
Main address
2800 Rockcreek Parkway
Kansas City, MO 64117 USA
EIN
43-1725294
NTEE code
Health Support Services (E60)
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (E12)
Children's and Youth Services (P30)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Cerner Charitable Foundation is building healthier tomorrows and stronger communities around the world through individual medical grants and wellness programs, engaging volunteerism, community initiatives and strategic partnerships. Cerner, its associates and partners give their time, expertise and resources to close the gaps in health care for children, reduce disparities in our communities, and support health care and veteran communities.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Reach Trips
Cerner associates travel with already-established mission groups to several locations around the world. They help treat the children and help with other necessary aspects of the mission.
Love Bag
The Love Bag program provides much needed personal items to children entering the foster care program or students at our Healthe Kids Screenings Schools. Individuals or groups donate supplies and assemble these bags for First Hand.
Healthe Kids Screenings
Healthe Kids Screenings offers free health screenings for elementary school children in the greater Kansas City area. If a child is identified with a medical referral during the screening, First Hand is committed to closing the gap by connecting the child to care and providing financial assistance, if needed.
Healthe Foundations
Healthe Foundations is a highly interactive and experiential high school health curriculum, offered free of charge in 44 school districts.
Healthe Communities
Healthe Communities facilitates a person-centered wellness home for a diverse community in Belton Missouri. Our wellness center provides screening services for adults and children, including biometrics and lipid profiles, without charge to participants. Coupled with educational sessions and wellness programming, Healthe Communities seeks to engage individuals, regardless of financial status or insurance, in managing their health - whether their goals are to maintain their current good health, manage a chronic condition, or seek access to the health care system to secure urgent care.
Healthe Perceptions
Healthe Perceptions is a comprehensive middle school mental health program. It focuses on prevention and education, screening, and connection to care for mental health issues facing middle school students.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total number of screenings held
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, At-risk youth
Related Program
Healthe Kids Screenings
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Student wellness screenings conducted
Number of clients reporting increased knowledge after educational programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Healthe Foundations
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Students participating in a two-week healthy lifestyle curriculum
Number of one-on-one coaching sessions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Caregivers, Immigrants and migrants
Related Program
Healthe Communities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Total number of coaching sessions conducted at a faith-placed wellness center
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Total volunteers helping with a variety of programs at First Hand Foundation
Number of children who have access to healthcare
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Children and youth
Related Program
Healthe Perceptions
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of children whose medical case grant applications received grant funding connecting them to health care
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Guided by the social determinants of health, Cerner Charitable Foundation is building healthier tomorrows and stronger communities around the world.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Individual Case Grants: The application-based case grant program provides funding for children to receive needed care, often improving or saving their lives.
Community-Based Wellness: The free community-based wellness program offers health navigation and advocacy tools along with wellness screenings and fitness classes to help children and the adults around them adopt healthy behaviors.
High School Healthy Lifestyle Program: The free high school healthy lifestyle program teaches teens how to take charge of their health, showing how their decisions today can shape their future.
Wellness Screenings: The free wellness screenings program for elementary students identifies potential issues and recommends referrals for follow-up monitoring and care.
Social-Emotional Wellness Program: The comprehensive middle school program offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, staff development, social-emotional wellness screenings and access to follow up care.
Care Kits: Children facing difficult times receive their own bags full of age-appropriate personal items, creating a sense of comfort and security.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
In addition to a dedicated 41-person staff, Cerner Charitable Foundation leverages unique model of corporate philanthropy that brings together the associates, technology and business partners of Cerner – a leading-edge health information technology organization and Fortune 500 company.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since its founding in 1995, Cerner Charitable Foundation, formerly First Hand, has changed the lives of nearly 600,000 individuals in 93 countries. Today, Cerner Charitable Foundation has one of the most robust population health models within the philanthropic industry outside of the traditional health system.
In fiscal year 2020:
• 20,762 student wellness screenings were conducted in Kansas City area schools
• 6,048 Care Kits were distributed globally to children facing difficult times like foster care or homelessness
• 6,491 students participated in the foundation's high school healthy lifestyle curriculum
• 1,091 individual case grants funded to provide care to children around the world
• 11,472 engagements, such as advocacy appointments and medical consultations, completed at the foundation's community-based wellness program
• 5,112 middle school students participated in a mental well-being program
• 57,846 school-aged children in India benefited from improved health facilities, school health programming and sanitation initiatives
• 26,278 school-aged children in India received wellness screenings conducted through a replication of the foundation's model
With more than a decade of experience creating and implementing programs to create healthier populations, one foundation goal is to create outcomes and knowledge than can be share with other organizations and communities.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Cerner Charitable Foundation
Board of directorsas of 1/26/2021
- Position Currently Open
Cerner Corporation
Term: 2017 - 2019
Marc Naughton
Cerner Corporation
Randy Sims
Cerner Corporation
Lynn Marasco
Cerner Corporation
Marcos Garcia
Cerner Corporation
Brenna Quinn
Cerner Corporation
David Nill
Cerner Corporation
Bill Graff
Cerner Corporation
Cortney Patterson Barton
Patterson Family
Allan Kells
Cerner Corporation
Tracy Platt
Cerner Corporation
Shanna Adamic
Cerner Corporation
Travis Dalton
Cerner Corporation
Matt Wildman
Cerner Corporation
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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