ASCENSION HEALTH AND SETON CENTER WELCOME NEW CEO, STACY MAYER

Ascension Health and the Seton Center Board of Trustees are pleased to introduce Stacy Mayer, MPA, to Seton Center. She will serve as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) beginning May 27, 2025. Stacy joins Ascension’s Seton Center Community Health Ministry with a wealth of experience in leadership, consulting, business and philanthropy development. Her transformational approach to improve business and quality performance and integrate services will ensure continued stability of Seton services within the Kansas City community.

As CEO, Stacy will be responsible for all aspects of operations at Seton Center to aid in continuing the mission of the Daughters of Charity and Ascension's Community Health Ministries in areas of unmet health care and social needs. Seton Center provides a range of dental, behavioral health and social services in an effort to enhance social determinants of health initiatives and health management.

Stacy is a native of Kansas City. After attending college in Connecticut and abroad, she began her career in New York working in magazine publishing. There she also volunteered as a Big Sister for siblings, one of whom had a chronic infectious disease. Her experience inspired her to return to Kansas City and earn her Master’s in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management.

Stacy has dedicated her career, and much of her spare time to nonprofit work to improve the lives of community members and the overall vitality of Kansas City. She is a alumna of the Greater Kansas City's Chamber of Commerce prestigious Centurions program. During the last decade, her focus has been food and housing security through leadership roles at Harvesters and reStart Inc.

Stacy looks forward to continuing her career as CEO of Seton Center where she will focus on increasing access to programs and services that improve the health, vitality and social determinants of health of our neighbors in need.

She and her husband, Tim, have four children. Outside of work, they enjoy serving at their church, traveling, hiking, reading and hosting gatherings of friends and family.

Welcome Stacy!

Ascension is one of the nation’s leading non-profit and Catholic health systems, with a Mission of delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to those most vulnerable. Ascension has four Community Health Ministries (CHMs) in five locations throughout the U.S. Each is positioned to serve their community’s most vulnerable populations, in urban and/or rural settings. Our CHMs provide a range of medical, dental and social services, and serve as model sites of innovation for social determinants of health (SDoH) initiatives and population health management. The Daughters of Charity developed the CHMs in areas of unmet health care and social needs.

Kansas City, MO - Seton Center
Southeast Arkansas - Ascension DePaul Services/DePaul Community Health Centers, part of the New Orleans entity
New Orleans - Ascension DePaul Services and Marillac Community Health Center (affiliated FQHC) d/b/a DePaul Community Health Centers
El Paso - Centro San Vicente (Ascension affiliate) and Ascension DePaul Holdings of El Paso
San Antonio - Ascension DePaul Services

For more information please visit www.ascension.org

Seton Center is a 501(c)(3) social services organization located in Kansas City’s urban core. Founded in 1969, the Center runs one of the largest safety net dental clinics in the region, a food pantry, emergency rent and utility assistance program, a thrift store, a NEW Children’s mental health program, in addition to supplemental support such as diapers and medical equipment for neighbors in need. We welcome the opportunity to involve new friends as volunteers and donors in support of this mission.

For more information please visit www.setonkc.org

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