Last weekend, for the first time during the pandemic, Dr. Drew Miller was unable to send a severely ill COVID-19 patient to the intensive care unit. Miller and other staff at Kearny County Hospital in southwestern Kansas had done what they could, putting the patient on a maximum oxygen flow. ...
After a brief reprieve in the green tier, the local health department has again raised its guidance to schools operating during the coronavirus pandemic. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Thursday that it was raising its recommendation back to the yellow tier, which calls for ...
LENEXA, Kansas — For months, the people at a Johnson County lab found themselves consumed, running an endless parade of tests on human spit. The feds hadn’t yet OK’d a single saliva test for COVID-19, but the scientists at Clinical Reference Laboratory were sure they could design ...
A Lawrence pediatric health care center plans to merge with an expanding nonprofit health care provider early next year. Panda Pediatrics and Heartland Community Health Center announced the merger in a press release Wednesday and said the move will provide more unified access to integrated ...
One more Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the health department’s Wednesday update about the virus. Previously, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that 18 people — five residents between the ages of 65 and 74, one resident between the ages of 75 and ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday ordered flags across Kansas to be flown at half-staff after the state passed another somber milestone in the continuing fight against COVID-19: 1,000 killed by the novel respiratory virus. COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1,007 Kansans ...
Over the past two weeks, the University of Kansas has confirmed only 30 new cases of COVID-19, a significant drop from the rates recorded earlier in the semester, data released Tuesday shows. KU has confirmed 1,101 total cases of COVID-19 since the school year began in August, an increase of ...
Douglas County reported 2,877 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 38 cases since Monday. George Diepenbrock, spokesperson for Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, said some of the new cases reported Tuesday were due to an update in the state's disease surveillance system that ...
One more Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the health department’s Monday update about the virus. Previously, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that 17 people — five residents between the ages of 65 and 74, one resident between the ages of 75 and 84 ...
Kansans remain among the most vulnerable in the country to surprise medical bills — charges from outside an insurance network that the consumer only discovers after treatment. A new research brief from the Kansas Health Institute points to studies suggesting the charges are common in Kansas. ...
The new Women’s Center at the LMH Health West Campus was designed to handle most of the care patients needed all under one roof, with multiple services just a few seconds’ walk away from one another. Megan Pedersen, director of specialty clinics, said this multidisciplinary approach was ...
Kansas counties that have mandated the use of face masks in public have seen much lower spread of COVID-19 than the statewide average, new research from the University of Kansas shows. The analysis by KU's Institute for Policy and Social Research found that counties with mask mandates had ...
Douglas County reported 2,796 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, an increase of 12 cases since Thursday. The county has averaged about 16 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 15.64 new ...
The word “love” is not often associated with county government, Douglas County Commissioner Nancy Thellman said Friday. But she said that was the only word that fit regarding the work Douglas County and local health organizations have done toward establishing a new campus focused on ...
LMH Health has figured out that federal funding will buy the hospital about 60,000 COVID-19 test kits, but it hasn’t yet figured out who they will be used on. Leaders at the hospital also have figured out something else: 60,000 isn’t as big of a number as it sounds. “That sounds like ...
The local health department and members of Unified Command are asking Douglas County residents to take a survey to understand whether residents are willing to receive an FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available. The survey asks questions about which factors would influence ...
Updated at 5:03 p.m. Wednesday Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that she will soon open discussions with state legislative leaders to ways in which a bipartisan consensus could be reached on instituting a mask mandate for the entire state of Kansas. Kelly's initial statewide mask mandate, ...
Story updated at 1:29 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA (AP) — Health care workers and long-term care residents will be among those who will get the coronavirus vaccine first in Kansas, a draft plan shows. Kansas’ 45-page plan was filed in the past week with the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Four researchers at the University of Kansas found recently that Asian Americans have been hit harder by unemployment related to the COVID-19 pandemic than any other minority group in the United States, but the reason why isn't exactly clear. Since the pandemic took hold in March, Asian ...
Douglas County's health department was notified Tuesday by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment of two COVID-19-related deaths of county residents that occurred in August. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said in its daily update that it was notified on Tuesday of the two ...