Story updated at 5:24 p.m. Monday: Two weeks ago, some health leaders in Douglas County were disappointed by a local health center’s decision not to transfer its COVID-19 vaccine doses to Lawrence's hospital for distribution. Now that organization, Heartland Community Health Center, has ...
Lawrence resident Mindy Morrow knows that her family has a history of heart disease — both her father and her grandfather died from heart attacks. But she also knows that she has a chance to change the pattern by changing her lifestyle. “I did not want my family’s past to be my ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — People with private health insurance will see the nasty shock of “surprise” medical bills virtually gone, thanks to the coronavirus compromise passed by Congress. The charges that can run from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars come from doctors and hospitals that ...
Story updated at 2:52 p.m. Tuesday: Heartland Community Health Center received its anticipated 1,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at 9 a.m. Tuesday and began vaccinating Tier 1 health care workers slightly before 11 a.m., according to the health center's leader. Robyn Coventon, CEO ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal advisory panel recommended Sunday that people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers should be next in line for COVID-19 shots, while a second vaccine began rolling out to hospitals as the nation works to get the ...
These days, we are all used to announcements of closings and changes in plans on short notice. We have all been living this dance for the last nine months. The reality of COVID-19 has reached our community and rages strong across the state. Near the beginning of the pandemic, the staff at the ...
A leader at Lawrence’s hospital expressed disappointment in a local health center’s decision not to transfer its incoming vaccine doses to LMH Health, a choice the leader called a “wrinkle” in the vaccine distribution process. Heartland Community Health Center announced Friday morning ...
Douglas County reported 5,859 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, an increase of 62 cases since Thursday. In Douglas County, 4,905 out of the 5,859 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 954 cases are active. The county has ...
Lawrence educators could begin receiving a COVID-19 vaccine sometime in the next few months as they are considered second in line in the state’s rollout plan. During a press conference Wednesday, Gov. Laura Kelly said the state’s teachers, school staff and child care workers are scheduled ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s guidance for schools operating during the COVID-19 pandemic has been downgraded to the yellow tier. The health department announced the downgrade in its weekly update on Thursday and now recommends for county schools to also use hybrid or fully ...
Douglas County reported 5,797 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of 57 cases since Wednesday. In Douglas County, 4,866 out of the 5,797 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 931 cases are active. The county ...
TOPEKA — Doses from Kansas' first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine were arriving Thursday in rural Kansas for hospitals to administer to health care workers, though the state expects its second shipment to be smaller than anticipated. The state has received its full shipment of the first of ...
One month ago, LMH Health respiratory therapist Shannon Fletcher shared in a public message that she "broke down into tears" thinking about how the pandemic is so out of her control. On Wednesday night, she was the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at LMH Health. It was exciting, ...
As leaders at LMH Health look ahead to 2021, they expect the pandemic to have eased greatly by the second half of the year and for finances at the not-for-profit hospital to be on an upswing. But they aren’t expecting it to be a year without threats. LMH will be on the lookout for ...
Lawrence Memorial Hospital will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines this afternoon, LMH leaders were told this morning. The first vaccinations are expected to begin about 1:30 p.m. at the hospital, but members of the general public shouldn’t travel to the hospital expecting to get a ...
Douglas County reported 5,632 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 70 cases since Monday. Of those 70 cases, however, only 35 are new. The other 35 are older cases from November and early December that disease investigators recently determined should have been assigned to Douglas ...
Though LMH Health hasn’t received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine yet, the Lawrence hospital is anticipating that it will be able to vaccinate between 200 and 300 people a day at its new drive-thru vaccination center. Christina Crowley, director of pharmacy at LMH Health, spoke to the ...
Updated at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she's struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the Missouri border safe. In return, she's ...
One more Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the local health department’s update on Monday. The new death, which brings the total to 30, was a woman in the 85-plus age range who had been hospitalized at the time of death, health department spokesperson George ...
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Kansas, but much is still unknown about the first phase of the distribution process in Douglas County. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the vaccine for emergency use on Friday, and some health care workers in Wichita began receiving shots ...