Overland Park
Overland Park-based Sprint today announced that it would commit to creating or bringing back to America 5,000 jobs by the end of its 2017 fiscal year. In a news release issued late this afternoon, the company said it expects those…
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The University of Kansas Hospital will break ground on a new $100 million facility in Overland Park on Wednesday afternoon, one that will add operating rooms and inpatient rooms, imaging operations and patient amenities. The expansion of the…
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Netsmart Technologies, one of the region's Top 100 private companies, based on revenues, has a new owner and an expanded mission: The Overland Park-based provider of IT products for behavioral health-care providers is being sold for $950 million to a…
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NAI LaSala-Sonnenberg and Lee & Associates Kansas City, a pair of commercial real estate agencies based in Overland Park, announced today that they had merged, effective Jan. 1, and will operate as NAI LaSala-Sonnenberg Heartland. In a news release announcing…
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On multiple levels, it was a milestone year. For the Kansas City region, 2015 goes into the history books as a year of change. A lot of it good, as when the Royals snagged the 2015 World Series title, and…
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The roster of causes to serve is without limit: You can serve God. Country. Community. School. Neighbor. You can use charity and compassion to fight—against poverty, hunger, illiteracy, addiction, domestic violence or animal abuse. You can use those same tools…
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ROYALS ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS The Kansas City Royals, in typical Royals fashion during the 2015 post-season, come back in the ninth inning and defeat the New York Mets with a 5-run 12th inning, capturing the 2015 World Series championship on…
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Winds of Change Swirl Around Health-Care Interests The current challenges facing the U.S. health care system seem to be as varied as the 318 million Americans that system serves: individual customers with unique health and wellness issues, insurance companies adjusting…
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Rapid advances in health-related wearable tech present intriguing challenges—and huge opportunities—for understanding and treating illnesses. “I think,” says Gregg Laiben, “that we are on the cusp of something big.” Big Data is part of that. But Laiben is talking about…
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As need proliferates, we should recognize that business can help address it. The good news, in terms of U.S. philanthropy, is that Americans gave an estimated $358.38 billion to charities last year, surpassing the peak last seen before the Great…
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