Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and O’Connell Children’s Shelter are partnering to form a new youth crisis continuum of care. Bert Nash announced the partnership in a news release Tuesday, noting that the collaboration is intended to address the “acute behavioral health needs of ...
Volunteering provides the opportunity to connect with your community and make a difference in the lives of those in need. Volunteers at LMH provide a special touch, one that can ease the stress for patients and families facing difficult and uncertain times. Lauren Cobb, volunteer services ...
It’s difficult to summarize a career spanning more than four decades in just a few words, but there’s a few that do the trick when it comes to Faith Friesen — 25,000 lives saved. Friesen, the blood bank supervisor for LMH Health, is preparing to retire after 43 years of working with ...
TOPEKA — Health officials warn travelers to watch out for a highly contagious new COVID-19 variant when making plans this month. During a Tuesday update on COVID-19 cases, the University of Kansas Health System reported treating 24 COVID-19 patients this week. Dana Hawkinson, director of ...
When Fort Scott’s Mercy Hospital closed in early 2019, the community of 7,550 people in southeast Kansas briefly lost its emergency room. Mayor Matthew Wells remembers the time without an ER clearly. “I watched several people, two in particular that I’ve known my whole life, die with ...
The human brain is amazing. This powerhouse controls everything going on in your body from A to Z. But as we age, what happens to our brain, and when should we be concerned? Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, a neurologist with Lawrence Neurology Specialists, explained that atrophy, or shrinkage of the ...