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Healthcare and Insurance

COVID-19 Restrictions Lifted Tomorrow

The White House announced last week that vaccine requirements for travel will expire on Thursday, May 11, 2023.  The Biden Administration is lifting the vaccination requirement for international air travelers. Fully vaccinated international air travelers will still need a full… more

Regional Hospitals Receive Safety Grades

Nearly a dozen hospitals in the Kansas City region have received the highest grades assigned for overall patient safety outcomes in a report issued this week by the non-profit Leapfrog Group. In the Kansas City area, Missouri hospitals receiving a… more

Q&A with Dana Hawkinson, MD

Dr. Hawkinson is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Kansas Medical Center. With COVID-19 restrictions on flight travel being lifted on Thursday, we asked Hawkinson the key takeaways from the pandemic and how we as a… more

Olathe Health Joining KU Health System

Officials from the University of Kansas Health System and Olathe Health announced today that the two will merge, the biggest health-care merger in the Kansas City market in nearly 20 years. Olathe Health CEO Stan Holm joined KU Health's CEO… more

Adiga Named New CEO at Liberty Hospital

Trustees of Liberty Hospital have found their next chief executive: Raghu Adiga, the hospital's chief medical officer, was named president and Chief Executive Officer this morning. He's been serving in that capacity on an interim basis since the June retirement… more

COVID Hospitalizations Fall to Pandemic-Era Low

Much to the relief of beleaguered health-care providers, the numbers of people hospitalized with COVID-19 hit something of a milestone this week, falling below 100 for the first time since all 27 regional hospitals began reporting data to the Mid-America… more

Missouri Medical Marijuana Sales Are on a $200 Million High

Fourteen months after the first sale to a qualified patient occurred in a Missouri medical marijuana dispensary, the total sales as part of the state-regulated medical marijuana program reached the $200 million mark, the state Department of Revenue has announced.… more

Hospitals on Edge as COVID-19 Admissions Soar

Just weeks after staving off the surge of pandemic-driven admissions that began in the summer, area hospital officials are again experiencing the systematic stress of soaring patient counts as the COVID-19 fall surge continues. The University of Kansas Hospital, the… more

Lee Norman Resigns as KDHE Secretary

Lee Norman, the Kansas City-area physician who served as Gov. Laura Kelly's point lead for Kansas throughout the pandemic, has resigned from his cabinet post as head of the Department of Health and Environment.  Norman, a longtime physician and former… more

July 2021 Digital Edition

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