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Healthcare and Insurance

Ingram’s 2020 Health Care and Insurance Industry Outlook

In late March, a sign appeared in front of our AdventHealth Shawnee Mission’s medical Center in Merriam. It read, simply, “Heroes work here.” It was not, says the health system’s CEO, Sam Huenergardt, an exaggeration.  “We’re fighting a war against… more

In the Belly of the Beast

Years of mission trips around the world have exposed Dr. Gary Morsch to health-care delivery that would be considered abysmal by American standards. The standards, though, have been rewritten by the COVID-19 crisis. By the halfway point of a two-week… more

Corraling an Unprecedented, Multi-Faceted Threat

Managing risks has never been more vital to a company’s prospects for success. It’s possible that the concept of managing risk—legal, operational, even physical risk to your employees—has never in our working lifetimes presented itself on more fronts, with more… more

Q&A With … Daniel DeBehnke, Guidehouse

Daniel DeBehnke is a physician and partner at Guidehouse, a Washington-based consultancy firm that recently put out a report that one in four rural hospitals could close, with Kansas being one of the hardest-hit states. And COVID-19 could worsen the… more

Stormont Vail Gives COVID-19 Update

Stormont Vail Health, based in Topeka, has released data on its COVID-19 care. As of yesterday, the hospital system has tested just under 1,500 patients year to date. There have been 86 positive tests out of those, and currently six… more

KU Med Testing Hydroxychloroquine

The University of Kansas Medical Center will participate in a nationwide clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a drug that is said to reduce the symptoms of COVID-19. The hospital's hope is to prevent COVID-19… more

Johnson County Makes COVID-19 Tracking Data Available by Zip Code

People can now track COVID-19 cases in Johnson County, Kan., by zip code.  The Johnson County dashboard shows a map with zip codes colored by the number of cases in the locale. As of April 15, there were 318 positive… more

Q&A With … Michael Sonnenberg, NAI Heartland

Michael Sonnenberg is a commercial real estate realtor at NAI Heartland, in Overland Park, where he is primarily focused currently on office and medical office properties. Q: How does the COVID-19 situation compare to the Great Recession and the challenges… more

KC’s Stay-At-Home Order Will Likely Extend

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said yesterday that the stay-at-home order put in place last month will likely be extended beyond its original April 24 expiration. Though Lucas said he is considering pushing the order through mid May, he still… more

WHO Leader: COVID-19 Dwarfs 2009 Flu

The COVID-19 pandemic is 10 times deadlier than the flu pandemic of 2009, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, general director of the World Health Organization. "We know that early case-finding, testing, isolating caring for every case and tracing every contact… more