OLATHE — Gov. Laura Kelly and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids said Friday that 120,000 Kansans allowed to remain in Medicaid due to a three-year suspension of eligibility reviews during the pandemic were in jeopardy of automatically losing coverage by not applying for renewal. The hiatus in annual ...
Updated at 1:15 p.m. Friday, June 2 Heartland Community Health Center announced a $3 million expansion project to its psychiatry and behavioral health care services Friday, including plans to break ground on an 8,000-square-foot building designated to house those services. According to a ...
One of the cardinal rules of journalism is not to insert yourself into a story. There’s always a part of the writer in each story they craft, but adding your own narrative isn’t done in a straight news piece. That is, until you write a piece about cancer and you happen to be the one ...
Every year in the U.S., tens of thousands of people die from gun-related injuries — including not just homicides and suicides, but also some accidental injuries that are entirely preventable. The most recent data reviewed by the Pew Research Center showed that in 2021, nearly 50,000 ...
In many ways, the coronavirus pandemic’s outsized impact on folks’ daily lives began to wane months ago. So much so, in fact, that data reporting has dropped in frequency — or even ceased entirely — in the case of entities like Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The county as of ...
Mark Algren has always had a full plate. He began teaching English in Hong Kong in 1979 and his career took him on a wild ride to places like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates before he landed at the University of Kansas Applied English Center and then finished his career at the ...