Heartland Health is an integrated health delivery system, which includes a medical center, physician practices, foundation and a health plan. Founded in St. Joseph in 1984, Heartland seeks to improve the health of area individuals and communities and to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place, at the right cost with outcomes second to none. Commitment to this mission has enabled Heartland Health to become the leader in healthcare in a 21-county area of northwest Missouri, northeast Kansas and southeast Nebraska. Providing exceptional care and service in an honest, respectful, trustworthy and caring manner is simply the way Heartland operates.
Heartland?s vision for the 21st century includes a patient-centered, fully integrated regional health delivery system inclusive of all payers and providers and is on course to become a benchmark as one of the best health organizations in the nation.