Thrive Excelsior Springs is a community collaborative that improves quality of life and increases life expectancy through health and wellness, economic vitality and housing. Thrive knows health care is more than just about bodily health. Kim Halfhill, a member of the Excelsior Springs board of directors for ACT Missouri, said, “Health has a lot to do with quality of life including jobs, housing, transportation and beyond. More than 60 percent of health comes from beyond DNA.” Thrive Excelsior encourages residents and community leaders to come together, listen to feedback and identify challenges within the community, allowing participants to work together in order to strengthen the community. Within the Thrive Excelsior program, strategic priorities have been set in place to help the community obtain an improved quality of life and aid in increasing life expectancy, such as chronic disease, including smoking and having adequate access to health care. Thrive wants the community to…