Despite no indoor dining option due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lawrence's annual Community Christmas Dinner will still take place this Friday with to-go, delivery and outdoor seating options.
On Christmas from noon to 2 p.m., community members will be able to pick up free meals at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. Those wishing to eat there can sit on the sidewalk outside the church, where, weather ...
A recent decision from University of Kansas leadership to reorganize the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has prompted backlash from faculty and staff who say the changes were made without consultation from the marginalized communities who will be affected.
About 60 department chairs, numerous faculty staff councils and the graduate teaching assistants union, among other groups, signed letters to ...
A leader at Lawrence’s hospital expressed disappointment in a local health center’s decision not to transfer its incoming vaccine doses to LMH Health, a choice the leader called a “wrinkle” in the vaccine distribution process.
Heartland Community Health Center announced Friday morning that it will receive 1,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine when it becomes available and that the health center plans to ...
At the beginning of the pandemic, Ballard Center Executive Director Becky Price was bracing for a 150% increase in people needing help and a 50% decrease in donors. But nine months into the pandemic, the nonprofit leader said no donor decrease has occurred. She’s had a “front row seat” to the community’s generosity, she said — and especially so in her own North Lawrence community.
“People are ...
One month ago, LMH Health respiratory therapist Shannon Fletcher shared in a public message that she "broke down into tears" thinking about how the pandemic is so out of her control.
On Wednesday night, she was the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at LMH Health.
It was exciting, Fletcher said, noting that she felt a “kind of relief.”
“We can see the light at the end of the tunnel and we know ...
Though LMH Health hasn’t received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine yet, the Lawrence hospital is anticipating that it will be able to vaccinate between 200 and 300 people a day at its new drive-thru vaccination center.
Christina Crowley, director of pharmacy at LMH Health, spoke to the Journal-World Tuesday morning at the site of the new drive-thru on the northwest corner of the hospital’s campus. Crowley said ...
