Missouri’s Longtime Free Clinic Director To Lead Health Care Foundation of Missouri

Circle Connections: New Talent Bridget McCandless, medical director of the Shared Care Free Clinic of Jackson County, will be the new president and chief executive of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, the organizations announced Friday. She will succeed Steve Roling on Sept. 3. McCandless, a physician, has led the free clinic, which serves the area's uninsured population, since its founding in 2000. At the health care foundation, she also will be concerned with supporting health care for the uninsured and the community at large. This was reported by The Kansas City Star on July 26, 2013 . . .