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Celia Llopis-Jepsen/Kansas News ServiceDuring a recent outbreak at Centennial Homestead in rural central Kansas, the nursing home had to wait five days for COVID-19 test results from a lab hours away. -
Jeff Roberson/AP/APKansas Hospitals Are Declining 100 Rural Coronavirus Patients A Month As Capacity Continues To SwellMost of the patients who are turned away are from rural areas with no mask mandates, said Dr. Heather Harris, Hays Medical Center's medical director.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the politics that surround it have triggered an exodus of local public health workers in Kansas.
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After COVID-19 cases stabilized over the weekend, Kansas City health experts are asking those who traveled during the Thanksgiving holiday to quarantine and get tested.
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Competition for traveling nurses by all accounts is intense right now, with no signs of easing.
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Seventy-six rural Kansas counties don't have intensive care units. Yet finding hospitals in cities able to take in their patients is becoming increasingly difficult.
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University of Kansas officials are worried about how students will be spending the holidays at home after COVID-19 cases rose by nearly 5% after Halloween.
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The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a tenants rights group against the presiding judge of Jackson County Circuit Court, David Byrn.
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Mayor Quinton Lucas defended new restrictions and called on all local governments to enact the same as COVID-19 hospitalizations hit another grim milestone.
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Health experts across Kansas City are asking people to skip large family gatherings this year as COVID-19 cases surge across the metro.
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Medical experts say social inequality and racism in medicine can be deadly for Black infants, mothers and families.
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People talk about the difficult decisions they've made to skip trips to see family for the holiday.
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Even if all Kansans immediately mask up and avoid crowded places, it will likely take weeks to ease the burden on hospitals packed with COVID-19 patients.
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Gov. Mike Parson said hospital capacity is "becoming a problem," warns Missourians about family gatherings for the upcoming holidays.
