Douglas County’s school virus guidance will remain at its lowest tier for the third straight week as new cases of COVID-19 continue to fall. On Thursday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that its guidance to schools would stay in the green tier, which recommends that schools ...
The Lawrence school district on Thursday reached a significant threshold for staff members receiving vaccines for COVID-19. District spokeswoman Julie Boyle said 1,000 faculty and staff members had received a first dose of the vaccine. The milestone is important as the district works through a ...
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, local health leaders say that prioritizing people for the shots isn't as simple as it looks, and that the size of the county's weekly allocations depends on how quickly it distributes the shots it has. In a virtual panel discussion about testing, ...
Douglas County reported 8,581 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 11 cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 8,190 out of the 8,581 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 391 cases are active. The county has ...
Updated at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday Qualifying faculty and staff members from Douglas County universities will soon be included in Phase 2 vaccine distribution, according to the county health department. George Diepenbrock, spokesperson for Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, said that the ...
Douglas County has averaged about 14 new COVID-19 cases per day over the last 14 days, which is the lowest average the county has seen since mid-August. "Our 14-day moving average of daily case count is continuing to decline at a consistent level. To keep these numbers low, it remains ...
Douglas County's Unified Command will host its second virtual COVID-19 panel discussion surrounding the topics of testing, vaccination and equity at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The panelists are Jennifer Schrimsher, an infectious disease doctor at LMH Health; Ruaa Hassaballa, the COVID-19 testing equity ...
One way that LMH Health focuses on patient safety is by carving out a specific time each day for staff members from across the hospital to talk about it. This “safety huddle,” as hospital workers call it, happens each morning, and Patient Safety Officer Mardi Bowlin said it’s a way to ...
Leaders at LMH Health are convinced the state’s largest health insurance company pays LMH less for medical care than hospitals in places like Topeka receive for providing the same type of care. LMH leaders said this past week that they’ve launched new negotiations with Blue Cross Blue ...
Updated at 4:20 p.m.Friday Data from four local health organizations showed that nearly 17,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday. Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland ...
Douglas County’s school virus guidance will remain at its lowest tier for the second straight week as new cases of COVID-19 continue to fall. On Thursday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that its guidance to schools would stay in the green tier, which recommends that schools ...
Douglas County reported 8,533 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of 28 cases since Tuesday. In Douglas County, 8,033 out of the 8,533 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 500 cases are active. The county has ...
Public health leaders are loosening restrictions on the local health order in response to fewer COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the community, according to a press release from Unified Command partners. Starting Friday at midnight, the mass gathering limit will be updated from 10 ...
The finances at LMH Health have improved, and now so too will the compensation package for its chief executive officer. The board of trustees for the nonprofit hospital and health system on Wednesday approved a 30% increase in compensation for LMH Health President and CEO Russ Johnson, as the ...
Douglas County health leaders expect to provide COVID vaccines to 2,000 people in five hours today, the largest vaccination effort yet in the county, and a bigger 5,000-person event is on the horizon. Members of the LMH Health board of trustees were told Wednesday that today’s vaccination ...
Douglas County reported 8,505 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 17 cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 8,001 out of the 8,505 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 504 cases are active. The county has ...
Story updated at 3:26 p.m. Tuesday: Local vaccine distributors have processes in place to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines don’t go unused at the end of their vaccination clinics. LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health and Heartland Community Health Center said that if doses ...
TOPEKA (AP) — A second case of a more-contagious coronavirus variant has been confirmed in Kansas, state health officials said Monday. The variant virus first detected in the United Kingdom was found in the Wichita area, the state Department of Health and Environment said in a news ...
Douglas County reported 8,490 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 66 cases since Friday. In Douglas County, 7,983 out of the 8,490 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 507 cases are active. The county has ...
In 1974, 18-month-old Amy Karr had her first quadruple bypass heart surgery. This was just the first step of the journey for Karr, who is now the assistant manager of the LMH Health gift shop. Karr’s condition is called tetralogy of Fallot. It’s a rare heart condition that affects ...