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 ...
Everyone should have access to medical services, no matter the size of their community. Lawrence is surrounded by smaller cities and towns with lower populations and without larger infrastructure such as a hospital or an airport. In health care, these areas are known as rural communities. For ...
Story updated at 5:29 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023: LMH Health’s recently hired chief financial officer is no longer in his position, after it was revealed that he was a convicted felon and legally changed his name last year — and didn’t disclose those details during his hiring ...