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On Thursday, Governor Mike Parson announced that Missouri has submitted its plan for administering the impending COVID-19 vaccine to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Governor Parson was joined by Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS)…
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC), the region’s largest not-for-profit healthcare insurance provider, announced today it will invest in KCRise Fund II, which funds high-growth, early-stage technology companies in the Kansas City area. “Blue KC’s investment…
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson made a stop in Kansas City, Mo. Thursday morning for a press conference about new saliva-based COVID-19 testing in the state. The conference was held Truman Medical Center/University Health, where Parson announced the hospital will be one…
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On Thursday, Missouri officials will release their plans to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available. “We hope to have a limited number of vaccines in December and hope to have enough of the vaccine for everybody in April,”…
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This year, hundreds of health organizations have been impacted by large-scale security breaches and cyberattacks to their systems. So far this year, around 412 healthcare organizations reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), reports Becker’s Health IT.…
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Q: Given what we’ve seen in 2020, especially with the big shift to remote working for so many employees, can you tell us a bit about the biggest challenges your clients have seen in the run-up to this enrollment period?…
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University of Missouri Health Care has once again made the list of health systems recognized for “Most Wired” in 2020. This the system’s tenth consecutive year making the list in a survey by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives,…
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The Missouri labor market’s recovery resumed in September 2020. Employment, seasonally adjusted, increased by 13,000 jobs over the month and over-the year job losses from COVID-19 shutdowns dropped below 125,000. Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate went down by 2.1 percentage points…
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Today, Governor Mike Parson announced 11 broadband projects will receive $846,407 through round two of the state’s Emergency Broadband Investment Program. 465 Missouri households will be connected to broadband as a result of these projects, and nine of the projects…
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The developers who renovated the former Westport Middle School into co-working space now are tackling the historic high school across the street, proposing a $45 million apartment redevelopment. The vacant Westport High School building, which opened in 1908 at 315…
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