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School districts are closing due to COVID outbreaks and hospitals are being forced to delay procedures. “Before this surge is finished, omicron will be responsible for many deaths,” one health care leader says.

Hospitals say they're facing a "double whammy" as patient burden increases while more staff are out due to illness. In some regions, patients have to wait days for a bed to become available.

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.

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

The country's blood supply is dangerously low. For Meghan Jolliffe, if this shortage had occurred while she was giving birth, she may not have survived.

Interests on both sides of the program — hospitals and drugmakers — say they are at the mercy of a program designed with the best of intentions, now run amok, hijacked by for-profit companies and wealthy hospitals trying to profit from its largesse.

The annual window has opened to enroll in insurance plans through Healthcare.gov. Got questions? Local health clinics employ navigators who can help.

Missouri state officials failed to meet the Springfield region’s needs as the more-contagious delta variant caused a record number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

A think tank that studied hospital insurance claims from across the country found large health plans got a better deal at LMH Health than the national average.

While hospital leaders say there are many reasons to be optimistic, there are still obstacles looming for hospital leaders in Missouri amid Medicaid expansion.

The tripling of attacks on staff by patients at Cox Medical Center is symbolic of what nurses around the state face.

Hospital executives were already attuned to workplace violence before the pandemic struck. But stresses from COVID have exacerbated the problem.