LMH Health’s top financial executive is leaving her position at the hospital at the beginning of next month.
Deb Cartwright, LMH Health’s chief financial officer, recently announced her resignation effective May 1. Cartwright first joined the hospital in December 2019 and is now leaving to accept a position at Kaiser Permanente’s Maui Memorial Medical Center in Hawaii.
LMH has already identified an ...
Douglas County leaders were expecting to hear from a nonprofit on Wednesday about a fleshed-out, multi-phase plan for distributing more of a lifesaving overdose reversal drug — and possibly to vote on whether to provide funding for it.
Instead, they had to press pause. What they got from social safety net agency DCCCA was more of a list of "possible solutions" than a full-fledged plan, and the agency's ...
People who are looking for an especially active way to stretch their philanthropic muscles will soon have a good opportunity.
The social service agency Van Go is gearing up to host its “May Day Hey Day” fundraiser on May 6. The annual event invites community members to “walk, ride, roll and run” along the Lawrence Loop in East Lawrence and end their trek with an outdoor party at Van Go, 715 New Jersey ...
Lawrence High School’s choral department will present its annual "Showtime" variety show this week.
Shows are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday. Doors open for general admission seating at 7 p.m. each night. Save for a two-year pause during the coronavirus pandemic, "Showtime" has been produced every year since 1974.
Dwayne Dunn, Lawrence High’s director of choral activities, told the Journal-World ...
Douglas County leaders this week could authorize a funding boost that would allow local social safety net nonprofit DCCCA to implement an integrated distribution project designed to enhance local access to the overdose-reversing drug naloxone.
At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners will consider amending DCCCA’s community partner agreement for 2023 to add upward of $47,570 for the ...
As the Lawrence school district prepares to close two of its school buildings, two of Douglas County’s other public school districts seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
The Eudora and Baldwin City school districts are poised to ask voters to approve multimillion-dollar bond issues in an upcoming special election and, in part, both proposals call for the districts to add to their existing building ...
