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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. It’s no secret that health care in rural Kansas is facing serious challenges and small community...

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 case numbers remain stubbornly high. Kansas Department of Health and Environment data shows that 889 ...

/ 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 at risk of a heart attack. But she trusted she would be fine once she was admitted and dialysis was ...

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