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Gov. Sam Brownback intends to take the “interim” off Tim Keck’s title.Keck has served as interim secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and…
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Editor’s note: Heartland Health Monitor partner KHI News Service conducted a months-long investigation into what led federal officials to deem Osawatomie…
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A top Kansas official said he hesitates to propose renovating all of Osawatomie State Hospital until he knows federal inspectors will give the state a…
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Administrators at Osawatomie State Hospital worked to maintain a delicate balance in 2011 as they struggled to cope with rising demand for care and…
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The director of a University of Kansas research center that recently lost the contract for its main body of work is open to resuming negotiations with…
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What appears at first blush to be little more than a contract dispute between a state agency and a University of Kansas research center is actually much…
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The Disability Rights Center of Kansas is seeking more information from the state about its backlog of Medicaid applications to determine whether Kansas…
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The troubled Larned State Hospital has a new superintendent.Veteran state attorney Bill Rein has been named to head the facility, which provides inpatient…
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This story was updated at 8:30 p.m.Gov. Sam Brownback trimmed more than $56 million from Medicaid in Kansas as part of larger budget cuts announced…
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The head of the legal department at Larned State Hospital will be transferred to Topeka later this month, a move that has some western Kansas attorneys…
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While the Kansas Legislature’s final budget bill did increase spending on mental health hospitals by $17 million, more than two-thirds of that funding…
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Legislative budget negotiators have agreed to insert a provision in the state budget preventing Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration from consolidating…