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MHFRC

Certificate of Need

The MHFRC's (Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee) mission is to achieve the highest level of health for Missourians through cost containment, reasonable access, and public accountability through the following goals:

  • Review proposed health care services;
  • Address community need;
  • Manage health costs;
  • Promote economic value;
  • Negotiate competing interests;
  • Prevent unnecessary duplication; and
  • Disseminate health-related information to interested and affected parties.

Committee Member Profiles (PDF of public contact list)

committee member Robert A. "Tony" Foster, Chair, Republican, Springfield

Appointed in March 2007; is presently the Director of Acquisitions and Development for the Foster Hospitality Group with nursing home and assisted living facilities in Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky. He also has served as a nursing home administrator and director of a real estate rental/management company. He is involved in many academic and civic organizations including the Missouri State University Foundation and the Springfield Missouri Symphony Orchestra. He has been involved in the Certificate of Need process in Missouri for more than 20 years.
committee member Michael Meierhoffer, Vice-Chair, Republican, St. Joseph
Appointed in March 2007; is President and CEO of Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory. He is Past Chariman of the Board of Trustees of Heartland Health and Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Living Community of St. Joseph, and instrumental in the Community Health Plan startup. He is also a graduate of the Naval Aviation School Command, and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Creighton University.
committee member Gordon L. Kinne, Republican, Springfield

Appointed in May 2008; is President/Owner of Med-Pay, Inc. He is a current board member of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Governing Board of Directors and Council of Churches of the Ozarks, plus affiliations with the Life Underwriters Association, Society of Professional Benefits Administrators, and Self Insurance Institute of America. His past activities in community and civic organizations included Past President and Board Member of the Missouri State Alumni Association, Past Chairman of the American Cancer Society Crusade, Past Chairman/Board Member of Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce and Girls Club of America Board, Past member of Papa Bears Board and Bear Country Boosters Board of MSU and Young President's Organization International 49'rs.

Representative Jake Zimmerman, Democrat, Olivette

Appointed in January 2009, elected to the House of Representatives in 2006; serves on the following committees: Rules, Insurance Policy, Joint Committee on Gaming and Wagering, and Utilities (ranking member); he was formerly Deputy Chief Counsel to Governor Bob Holden, and has worked as an Assistant Attorney General, and a litigator at Thompson Coburn, LLP; a member of Congregation B’nai Amoona, a board member of the American Jewish Committee and the Crown Center, and an alumnus of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Program where he was elected a Truman Scholar in 1995.

Robin Wright-Jones, Democrat, St. Louis

Appointed in February 2009, served in the House of Representatives from 2002-2008; elected to the Senate in 2008; serves on the following committees: Administration; Financial and Goveernmental Organizations and Elections; Gubernatorial Appointments; Veterans’ Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs; Ways and Means; and Joint Committee on Tax Policy; previously served as Chair of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus and the St. Louis City Caucus; a member of the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church; works as a real estate broker, and previously worked as a public housing administrator, and as an engineering consultant from 1980 to 2002.

Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican, Glendale

Appointed in February 2009, elected to the Senate in 2008; serves on the following committees: Gubernatorial Appointments; Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families, Vice-Chairman; Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government; Veterans’ Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs, Vice-Chairman; Ways and Means; Select Committee on Oversight of Federal Stimulus;and Joint Committee on Missouri HealthNet; served as a Glendale Alderman from 2005-2008; now practices law in St. Louis County; chaired a statewide Giving Tree effort benefiting Big Brothers-Big Sisters, and has been involved with the TS (Tuberous Sclerosis) Alliance, the Gateway Chapter of the Autism Society, and Habitat for Humanity.
committee member Representative Kenny Jones,, Republican, California

Appointed in January 2005; elected to the House of Representative in 2004; serves on the following committees: Appropriations - General Administration; Corrections and Public Institutions; and Crime Prevention and Public Safety; he was formerly the Moniteau County Sheriff and spent 11 years with the Missouri Highway Patrol as a Trooper; Elder in the First Christian Church of California, and a member of the Lions Club and Masonic Lodge; he is also the current Vice President of the Missouri Sheriffs Retirement Board.