Congrats to Luke Barnard! The Greater Lee’s Summit Healthcare Foundation is celebrating the 2017 scholarship awards given to 11 local health-focused students, who included Luke Barnard. He is an awardee of a $3,000 GLSHF scholarship. Luke shares his story: "I lived in the same house in the Bent Tree Bluffs neighborhood of Lee's Summit for the entirety of the first 18 years of my life, and my parents still live there to this day. After graduating from Lee's Summit North High S

Congrats to Hailey Baker! The Greater Lee’s Summit Healthcare Foundation is celebrating the 2017 scholarship awards given to 11 local health-focused students, who included Hailey. She is the awardee of a $5000 GLSHF scholarship. Hailey says, "I grew up in Lee's Summit my whole life and then went to KU for undergraduate, graduate, and medical school. Over this last year, I took a year off from medical school to obtain my masters of science in clinical research to enhance and d

Congratulations to Maddison Krause! Maddison is the recipient of one of the 11 local health-focused scholarships from the Greater Lee’s Summit Healthcare Foundation. Her 2017 award was for $5000. Maddison says, "In the fall, I will begin my second semester of Nursing School at Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences. I will graduate in December 2018 with my Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing. After graduation, I plan to gain some experience at a local hospital, while earning a

Congratulations to Jessica Solis! The Greater Lee’s Summit Healthcare Foundation is celebrating the 2017 scholarship awards given to 11 local health-focused students, who included Jessica Solis, the recipient of a $5000 award. Jessica says, "The scholarship money I received will help pay for my senior year of my BSN at Saint Luke's College of Nursing. It's aiding me in graduating nursing school almost debt free! This money helps me complete my schooling to begin my career as

Congrats to Matt Kamp! He is an awardee of a $5,000 GLSHF scholarship. Matt is a Lee's Summit student now studying out-of-state. Matt says, "The Greater Lee’s Summit Healthcare Foundation scholarship is helping me attend the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University as a first year medical student. I am truly honored to receive the support of a great organization from my hometown to pursue my dream of becoming a physician, even when that dream has pulled me 1300 miles

Congrats to Brittany Kendall! She is an awardee of a $5,000 GLSHF scholarship. Brittany is attending the University of Central Missouri. The Greater Lee’s Summit Healthcare Foundation is committed to ensuring that education in the medical disciplines is accessible to our residents. Each year the Foundation will award scholarships to area residents to support their academic studies leading to healthcare careers.​Multiple scholarships are awarded to support studies in the foll