Heartland Community Health Center has seen a dramatic increase in visits related to family-planning care, its leader told Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday, and that could make it the ideal new home for a grant funding such services.
At its weekly meeting, the County Commission heard from Heartland CEO Julie Branstrom and Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Director Dan Partridge about the health ...
When Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health hands off family-planning services to another provider at the end of June, it seems that that provider won’t be moving those services very far — or moving them at all.
Heartland Community Health Center, which will be applying for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s grant for family-planning service providers, is planning to add a service site at ...
While the most common place to bump into your family doctor outside of the office might be somewhere like the grocery store, in Lawrence it could also be the concert stage.
That’s because there’s a local choir composed entirely of men who work in fields related to health care. It's called the Medical Men’s Chorus, and it's been making music for more than a decade since its founding by organist Tandy ...
A proposal to establish a quarry just southeast of Eudora again failed to draw much support on its recent return to the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission.
Topeka-based construction materials company Mid-States Materials has been trying since late last year to gain approval for a conditional use permit to establish the quarry. Its application already went to the Douglas County Commission ...
Updated at noon Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023
The LMH Health board of trustees approved a strategic clinical relationship with the University of Kansas Health System Wednesday morning, and hospital leaders say it will pave the way for clinical partnerships that increase patients’ access to specialty care in Douglas County.
At the same time, LMH Health CEO Russ Johnson stressed that the agreement also ensures LMH ...
Douglas County’s Heritage Conservation Council has found its next coordinator, and that means it will soon be able to proceed with its Natural and Cultural Heritage Grant program for 2023.
During the Douglas County Commission's work session on Wednesday afternoon, HCC chair Jenny Trucano Muller told commissioners that the council has chosen Kaitlyn Ammerlaan as its next heritage coordinator, and Ammerlaan is ...
