Updated at 5:32 p.m. Friday Douglas County will remain in Phase 3 of its reopening plan for an additional two weeks because of an uptick of COVID-19 cases in the county. Based on the county’s Smart and Safe Reopening Plan, the earliest the county would have moved into its phase-out plan ...
Updated at 7:47 p.m. Friday LMH Health has pressed “pause” on a controversial plan it announced earlier this week to replace the local physicians group that oversees the hospital’s emergency department with a large national firm. The hospital’s executive team announced Friday morning ...
All individuals on the University of Kansas campus, effective immediately, will be required to wear a face covering to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, KU Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer said Thursday. The KU policy office is in the process of drafting new personal safety requirements for ...
Updated story - June 19 — LMH Health ‘pressing pause’ on controversial decision related to emergency room doctors The company overseeing the care at Lawrence’s only emergency department is set to go from a Lawrence-based company to a large, national firm. LMH Health announced ...
TOPEKA — Thirteen counties in Kansas, including Douglas County, are experiencing an uptick in confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 14 days, demonstrating that the state is not yet in the clear of the pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday. Kelly specifically singled out Sedgwick County ...
Story updated at 5:14 p.m. Monday Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has announced the first COVID-19 outbreak in the county. Four individuals were infected at the same business, which the health department said it did not identify because of patient privacy restrictions. The situation ...
In the 1990s, Boston Medical Center began noticing pediatric patients being treated for asthma were not showing signs of improvement after treatment. The health care team learned that children were returning to homes overtaken by mold and other infestations where landlords had disregarded ...
Survivors of COVID-19 are donating their blood plasma in droves in hopes it helps other patients recover from the coronavirus. And while the jury’s still out, now scientists are testing if the donations might also prevent infection in the first place. Thousands of coronavirus patients in ...
Close contact businesses such as tattoo parlors, nail salons and barber shops are seeing a return of their client bases, and owners say they believe the community is starting to feel more relaxed about getting out and about. Tracy Meisenheimer, of Nails by Tracy, 935 Iowa St., Suite 8, said ...
TOPEKA — County health departments in Kansas lacked the resources and manpower to swiftly ramp up “boots-on-the-ground” work when the coronavirus pandemic hit, new research suggests. The work by researchers at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita sheds light on the ...
TOPEKA — Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Kansas has finally secured the necessary infrastructure and testing supplies to launch a statewide strategy to test at least 60,000 Kansans — or 2% of the state population — for the respiratory virus per month over the next ...
City business leaders are hoping that if customers know businesses are following health guidelines to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, they will be more likely to visit restaurants, shops and other businesses. As part of that effort, several local business organizations have ...
NEW YORK — Emergency room visits in the U.S. for chest pain and heart attacks fell early this spring, according to a study that supports fears that the coronavirus outbreak scared people away from going to the hospital. ER visits were up for respiratory illnesses and pneumonia, but were ...
Being a patient or having a loved one in the hospital can be a stressful experience. Tests and procedures happen quickly, and emotions run high. What do you do if you aren’t getting the information you’d like or you feel that your voice isn’t being heard? Turn to LMH Health’s patient ...
Leaders of a large study in the United Kingdom that is rigorously testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and other medicines for hospitalized COVID-19 patients say they will stop putting people on the drug because it’s clear it isn’t helping. Results released Friday from 1,542 ...
We focus on the health of our patients and community members every day, but there is one month out of the year when we take some extra time to focus on men’s health. June is recognized as National Men’s Health Month. Dr. Walter Ingram, an internal medicine physician with Reed Internal ...
In 1970, Janice White secured a part-time job at the Visiting Nurses Association as a junior at Lawrence High School. She needed to fulfill a requirement of the job training program of which she was part. Her office education adviser, Mary Gauthier, expressed concern that the small, new ...
Many behavioral health leaders said they have not yet seen an increase in behavioral health crises in Douglas County due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but most anticipate a surge in the months to come. “It’s not necessarily during a crisis that you see an increase in behavioral health crises ...
With City of Lawrence recreation centers closed, some fitness instructors took their workouts online, giving residents the chance to try everything from yoga to taekwondo from their living rooms. More than 30 workouts have been posted on the city’s YouTube channel for anyone to access, ...
When the University of Kansas Medical Center announced in mid-April that it was joining a wide-ranging clinical trial for a drug controversially touted by President Donald Trump as a potential treatment for COVID-19, it naturally raised some eyebrows. Studies at the time had been inconclusive ...