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Kansas City Public Schools has regained full accreditation after a decades-long struggle. But while the district is celebrating the news, Superintendent Mark Bedell says they "have a lot of work to do." Plus, workers providing care for people with intellectual anddevelopmental disabilities have been quitting in droves during the pandemic.

Missouri and Kansas service providers are working long hours, waitlisting care and consolidating services as they grapple with a shortage of workers.

Overexposure to physical and mental stress that can result in feeling detached and hopeless is risk of of the pandemic.

Five months after a judge ruled Missouri must begin enrolling people in its newly expanded Medicaid program, only 20% of newly eligible residents have signed up. Health experts blame the slow start on the state's lack of outreach efforts.

An ordinance proposed by Jackson County legislator Crystal Williams would return authority to the county health director. But Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has already threatened a lawsuit.

Kansas hospital and public health leaders urged Gov. Laura Kelly to take action, citing the wave of health workers sidelined by COVID-19 and the influx of seriously ill patients.

Transgender inmates say they were targets of harassment by staff and inmates that put them in danger.

Health experts in Kansas and Missouri said hospitals may soon have to institute crisis standards designed for catastrophic public health events.

After residents of Nevada, Missouri — a city of nearly 8,300 people near the Kansas border — learned that Barone Alzheimer's Care Center would be closing due to financial hardship, they started organizing in protest.

More than half a dozen bills have been filed so far that aim to strip abortion providers or their affiliates of participation in the state’s Medicaid program or from receiving public benefits more broadly.

The No Surprises Act says patients can't get hit with pricey, unexpected medical bills. Some experts say the regulation could also slow the growth of health insurance premiums.

Parson cites the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the work of health care professionals in his decision that it's no longer necessary "to continue the state of emergency." The Missouri Hospital Association warns failure to extend the order will hamper providers facing staff shortages.