Elana Gordon

Proposition E specifically asks voters:

In recent months, local officials have been exploring the sale of North Kansas City Hospital, HCA Midwest announced plans to acquire St. Joseph and St. Mary’s hospitals.

The days of buying a Big Mac at one of Kansas City’s main hospitals are numbered. After two decades in operation, the McDonald’s at Truman Medical Centers' main city campus is slated to close on Friday, November 2.

In recent years, there’s been a concerted push at the local and national levels to expand access to healthy food, particularly in low-income areas.

HCA Midwest may soon be the new owner of Carondelet Health, which runs St. Joseph and St. Mary’s Hospitals.  The two groups have announced they’re in negotiations for a merger.

Health insurance, one of the major issues of the presidential election, is making a bigger impact on Missouri’s state ballot.

Researchers in Kansas City may have developed a way to speed up the diagnosis of critically ill infants with genetic diseases.

Starting October 1, hospitals that fail to meet certain quality measures will get less funding from Medicare.

Traffic fatalities and injuries are on the decline across the region, but highway safety leaders and advocates are warning of a growing problem: distracted driving, in large part from the use of cell phones while behind the wheel.

The Missouri Department of Insurance has issued its largest penalty to date, to health insurance company, Aetna. 

Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill and Republican challenger Todd Akin sparred about budgets, Medicare and other big issues in their first face-to-face debate earlier today.

Prosecutors in Kansas have dropped all remaining criminal charges against Planned Parenthood.

Area health officials are cautioning that whooping cough, which notably broke out in Johnson County this past spring, continues to be a problem throughout the Kansas City region.