Employees dealing with depression miss nearly 5 days of work every 3 months. For every employee experiencing mental illness, employers incur $15,000 per year in costs. Those are just two reasons the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Healthy KC Program released its first ever Mental Health at Work Action Guide.
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The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Healthy KC Initiative is recognizing 132 businesses and organizations as Healthy KC Workplace Wellness Certified. Attached is the list of the 2020 Healthy KC Workplace Wellness Certified Companies.
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About six months ago the KC Chamber and Healthy KC launched the KC Workplace Mental Health Assessment -- a key tool in learning about and sharing what mental health resources businesses and organizations in Greater KC are providing their employees. Who knew that within just a few months of starting the conversation at our kickoff event in November, the COVID-19 crisis would hit?
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FROM THE KC CHAMBER'S PRESIDENT AND CEO
You can help other Chamber members by sharing your reopening plans with them. Email them to info@kcchamber.com and we’ll post them on our Coronavirus Resources page on our website. The Chamber is finalizing our plan (we plan a gradual reopening of our Union Station office beginning June 1) and we’ll post our plan there, too, once we’ve presented it to staff.
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Congressional offices have contacted the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce to request updated information on what KC regional health care providers are encountering relative to COVID-19. Following is the Chamber’s request for financial relief for the health care industry and a bullet point summary of the information we have gathered from many area providers who voluntarily replied to our request for information. This has been shared with all four of our region’s US Senate offices and the offices of Rep. Cleaver, Rep. Davids, Rep. Watkins, Rep. Graves, and Rep.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas – in consultation with Health Department Director Dr. Rex Archer and Emergency Medical Services Medical Director Dr. Erica Carney – today issued a “Stay at Home” Order, requiring Kansas Citians to stay at home except for “essential activities” as our community continues working to slow the spread of COVID-19. Grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations, and healthcare facilities will remain open. This order will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, March 24.
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The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s commitment to leading the way to the best KC region means taking action during extraordinary times.
The Chamber’s leadership team has been meeting to establish protocol to keep our staff, Chamber members, and the general public safe and minimize the risk of exposure to COVID-19 while continuing our important mission.
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FROM THE KC CHAMBER'S PRESIDENT AND CEO
Good news for one of Kansas City’s major employers, now that a federal judge cleared the last major hurdle to the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile. Though a few more approvals are necessary, T-Mobile says it expects to close on the deal as early as April 1.
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