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Kansas City, MO – July 22, 2025 – Beacon Mental Health today announced that Tom Petrizzo, Chief Executive Officer, will be retiring, effective August 22, 2025, and Kristin Feeback, Ph.D. will succeed him as CEO. “Tom has been an exceptional leader for Beacon Mental Health for over eleven years,” said Troy Rust, Beacon Mental […]
About a month ago, I announced to the Beacon Board of Directors that I will be retiring later in 2025. I reached one of those significant milestone ages that start with a 6 and my wife is already retired, so it is time to make this next life transition and spend more time with family
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Amy Heithoff-Dominguez is a Master’s prepared Registered Nurse who advocates for those who struggle with health and mental health concerns. Originally from Nebraska, her first job as an intensive care nurse brought her to Kansas City 40 years ago. Her husband is Andres Dominguez, an Impact Strategist at the Health Forward Foundation. Amy is
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About a year ago, Beacon was notified that one of the tenants in the building would be leaving. This opened an opportunity for Beacon to expand and create a new all-inclusive therapy space for our clients. About 4 months ago, construction began on suite 2100, and last week, the beautiful new space opened to staff
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Brince Rogers is the HIM (Health Information Management) Manager/Privacy Officer here at Beacon Mental Health. He has worked here at Beacon for almost 9 years (in May), and he started out as Data Entry Clerk. Get to know Brince below. What do you like to do in your free time? Art (sketch, paint, sculpt),
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Beacon is unique in that we have a web of providers that assist us in reaching as many clients as possible. Help us celebrate our outstanding “Contractors of the Year”. Karen Steele and Larry Lauvetz work tirelessly to help Beacon be successful in our goal to help our clients and community. The nomination for
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Samantha House-Benjamin is an accomplished lawyer who wanted to get involved with an organization that helps people in our community. When she was approached to join the board of the Beacon Mental Health Foundation, she agreed quickly, and has distinguished herself as an active member, serving as Secretary this year. A Northland resident since
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As I have often described, the staff at Beacon Mental Health is a dedicated, talented group of well-trained people who help local citizens in need every day. It is an honor to work with them, and they deserve all the praise we can give them. Today, I want to shine a special light on
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Get to know Beacon Mental Health’s Director of Nursing and Healthcare Home: Dana Fifer who has worked for Beacon for 3.5 years (June will be 4 years) What do you like to do in your free time? My family is very important to me. I enjoy spending time with them. We spend time going to
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This is the last newsletter of 2024, a time to reflect on the year as a whole, and to put current events into a longer perspective. Of course, the topic of the moment is the refusal of the Platte County Commission to move forward with the Children’s Services Fund for the youth of a county
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