A new building at the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, 5500 E. Kellogg, should allow the Veterans Affairs facility to improve the delivery of mental health services.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently released the first quarterly report to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for KanCare, the state’s Medicaid program that started Jan. 1.
Ensuring high-quality care in a changing health care field was the theme of a forum offered by the Topeka-based Kansas Foundation for Medical Care on Thursday.
Via Christi Health’s recently announced workforce reductions will include about 360 positions, which will affect about 230 full- and part-time staff statewide, the system announced in a news release Wednesday afternoon.
With the close of the legislative session on Sunday and no definitive word from Gov. Sam Brownback, it appears the issue of Medicaid expansion in Kansas is dead – at least for the foreseeable future.
Rhonda Schippers spends a lot of time with hospital patients.
As part of a new grant initiative, the Kansas Health Foundation has selected five organizations to “create a healthier food and beverage environment for all Kansans,” according to a news release.
A Bel Aire development has secured its first tenant and is preparing to break ground on its first project.
Medical Provider Resources, a for-profit offshoot of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County, is moving into the society’s building at 1102 S. Hillside this week, according to Jon Rosell, executive director of the medical society.
Via Christi Health announced Tuesday it will lay off up to 400 staff members across Kansas – about 4 percent of its workforce – by the end of June.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday a second round of Health Care Innovation Awards – grants totaling almost $1 billion that will “fund applicants that have a high likelihood of driving health care system transformation and delivering better outcomes,” according to a news release.
The Wichita City Council on Tuesday signed off on an out-of-state bond issue to finance Ascension’s acquisition of Via Christi Health.
The Wichita City Council will consider on Tuesday almost a billion dollars in industrial revenue bonds to finance Ascension’s acquisition of Via Christi Health.
Wesley Medical Center announced Monday it has appointed Bill Voloch as its new chief operating officer
Wesley Medical Center recently launched a new mobile app for patients to check in to the emergency room ahead of their arrival.
The Department of Health and Human Services is allocating about $1.7 million for Kansas health centers to assist people select health insurance plans on the new online health insurance marketplace, which will be offered as part of the Affordable Care Act, according to a news release.
Newly released government figures of wildly varied hospital charges further illustrate a complicated and confusing health care system.
Phil Torres was just a couple of tests away from having a kidney transplant when Via Christi voluntarily suspended its program in Wichita last May.
The Wichita Business Coalition on Health Care and the Sedgwick County Health Care Roundtable’s annual conference Wednesday focused on the Affordable Care Act.
A Tennessee-based operator of more than 50 skilled-nursing and related health centers said Thursday that it has completed an acquisition of five skilled-nursing facilities in Kansas, including two in the Wichita area.
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