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MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas confirmed its first case of the omicron variant Thursday,...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas hospitals are clamoring for traveling nurses as the number...

After recovering from COVID-19, Langdon man now faces lung cancer diagnosis A Langdon, North Dakota, man has been called "the miracle patient" for leaving a COVID-19 unit in Fargo. But now, 61-year-old Tim Samuelson has yet another battle to fight as he recovers from the impacts of the illness.  Written By: Kevin Wallevand | × Cindy and Tim Samuelson. WDAY photo LANGDON, N.D. — Cindy and Tim Samuelson laugh about their refrigerator door. It is covered with pictur...

After recovering from COVID-19, Langdon man now faces lung cancer diagnosis A Langdon, North Dakota, man has been called "the miracle patient" for leaving a COVID-19 unit in Fargo. But now, 61-year-old Tim Samuelson has yet another battle to fight as he recovers from the impacts of the illness.  Written By: Kevin Wallevand | × Cindy and Tim Samuelson. WDAY photo LANGDON, N.D. — Cindy and Tim Samuelson laugh about their refrigerator door. It is covered with pictur...

In 2019, northwest Kansas-based Decatur Health was staring into the possibility of shutting its doors. "It got really bad, where we were not sure how we were going to financially be able to make it out through the month," said Chief Operations Officer Kristopher Mathews. "I think we were down to double digits of cash, like 10 days of cash on hand."  Like many small rural hospitals, it was financially struggling. Recent studies show around 75 rural hospitals in Kansas are operating at a finan...

P.J. Griekspoor HOSPITALS STRUGGLE: The Kansas Hospital Association has been working to create a new model for the delivery of care in an ongoing effort to try to help rural hospitals survive as the population of rural Kansas dwindles and ages. Next month, a series of conversations will begin to help communities make decisions about the effort to keep health care services available. As rural hospitals struggle to avoid closure, a new delivery-of-care model offers hope. ...

Here are the latest COVID-19 updates around the metro area, and in Kansas and Missouri.

Heather Hollingsworth and John Hanna, Associated Press photo by: Associated Press Dr. Lee Norman, head of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, answers questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna) TOPEKA (AP) — Coronavirus hospitalizations have fallen in Kansas from their high last month and staffing is under less strain as the shaky vaccine rollout gains momentum, although overall c...

/ While bed shortages have happened in pockets throughout the country since the spring, the pressure on hospitals is widespread now — reaching into urban and rural communities at an alarming pace. Keely Connolly thought she would be safe once the ambulance arrived at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center in Kansas. She was having difficulty breathing because she’d had to miss a kidney dialysis treatment a few days earlier for lack of child care. Her potassium was dangerously high, putting her ...

Keely Connolly thought she would be safe once the ambulance arrived at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center in Kansas.