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From Kaiser Health News 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 begun. She panicked when a nurse told her that no beds were available and that she would have to be transferred — possibly more than 450 miles away to Denver. She had heard ...

Saint Luke's East Hospital recently has been operating beyond its intensive care unit capacity. A handful of local hospitals has been running out of intensive care unit beds to treat additional patients. Since mid-November, a coronavirus surge has sent an average of roughly 180 patients with COVID-19 to Kansas City area hospitals each day. Though COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have declined slightly from their peaks in November and December, data show that many hospitals are continuing to operate at or near their intensive care capacity. The “high plateau” of cases that has persiste...

John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press TOPEKA — Doses from Kansas’ first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine were arriving Thursday in rural Kansas for hospitals to administer to health care workers, though the state expects its second shipment to be smaller than anticipated. The state has received its full shipment of the first of two doses of a vaccine made by Pfizer for 23,750 people, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The state included nursing home workers and residents with at-risk health care workers in the first group to get the shots, but the...