Kansas
The Federal Reserve Board released its Beige Book report for February indicating economic activity in the Tenth District was pacing at stable conditions but new commercial real estate development has all but ceased. While demand for credit remained stable across…
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The University of Kansas Hospital has been named one of the best hospitals in the world in Newsweek’s 2024 "World's Best Hospital" list, featuring only 43 hospitals in the U.S. Newsweek partnered with Statista and analyzed 2,400 hospitals across 30…
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Posted March 6, 2024 Overland Park-based Netsmart announced a strategic partnership with a senior care public-benefit corporation to bolster its value-based care designed around quality of care and provider performance to people with Medicare. Netsmart is partnering with Kansas City-based Serviam…
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Overland Park-based WellSky has partnered with a Florida-based Millennium Physician Group and will provide its doctors with technology to improve patient outcomes through post-acute care. Millennium physicians can access WellSky’s technology, clinical services team, and extensive acute, post-acute, and home…
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A study from Rent.com shows Kansas City rent prices have increased more than 7 percent year-over-year and Missouri’s rent growth leads nationally. From January 2023 to January 2024, rent prices rose by 1.13 percent, from $1,942 to $1,964. However, the…
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Lenexa-based developer Oddo Development is awaiting the Olathe City Council's approval to construct a 314-unit luxury apartment complex along Highway K-7. The nearly 485,000-square-foot development site is located south of College Boulevard and west of K-7. Oddo plans to build…
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Updated 11:53 p.m., March 5, 2024 A new fire station is being built in De Soto, just north of the Panasonic electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant, as part of a $15 million support infrastructure improvement plan and will be the…
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The Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri, or MOHELA, has denied allegations made against it by a teachers union and an advocacy group claiming the student loan company took part in a “call deflection scheme.” On Wednesday,…
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Updated 12:53 p.m., March 4, 2024 A Kansas Department of Commerce official believes the state is poised to take on more electric vehicle manufacturing investments a year after a bill passed to establish the Transformation of Passenger and Freight Vehicle…
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Creighton University released its Mid-America Business Conditions Index which shows the region dropped back below growth neutral and a decrease in job openings and layoffs over the past 12 months for all states in the region. The Business Conditions Index,…
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