Johnson County’s Mental Health Center is offering free gun locks to residents in an effort to reduce access to the most common method of death by suicide: firearms. Tim DeWeese,
The instability in the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace will hit Johnson County consumers hard in their pocketbooks for 2018. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City pulled
The proposition sounded innocuous enough. Brinti Rowley and her husband Jon had just moved back to Britni’s native Kansas City after a couple of years living in Chicago, and Jon
Johnson County Mental Health is kicking off a new, novel approach to patient transportation that could make it a model for other public health agencies across the country. Clinicians have
Last Thursday, Prairie Village resident Laura Robeson made her sixth trip to the Olathe office of Sen. Jerry Moran in recent months with the group Indivisible KC. On this trip, she was
A handful of Shawnee Mission School District elementaries are asking parents this year to refrain from bringing cakes, cookies or other sweets to their children’s classes to mark student birthdays.
It’s nearly impossible to take in the national news these days without encountering some story about the growing crisis of opioid misuse in this country. And while the effects of the
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced on Wednesday that it was pulling out of the Obamacare exchange for 2018, a move that will affect around 67,000 customers
When Prairie Village resident Stacey Donovan came across an article on kidney transplant waiting times a few years ago, she could hardly believe what she read. With thousands of patients
HealthSource KC, a new pain management and rehabilitation clinic in Mission, is the fulfillment of the vision of owner Ryan Nadolski, DC, to create a place where people can find a
The American Stroke Foundation has relocated its “Next Step” rehabilitation program in Mission a few blocks to the Sylvester Powell Community Center, a move that’s opened more opportunities for helping
Damon Heybrock, MD, wants to turn the clock back to a time when people were close to their physician, didn’t endure long waits and weren’t told what to do by
The Merriam City Council unanimously requested an ordinance be prepared that would ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone under 21, placing the city on path to becoming the
This is not what you’d expect to hear from someone who has battled cancer for more than two years and just learned he’d beaten the odds. “This is the scary
By Jerry LaMartina A real estate developer with plans for microhospitals in Leawood and Roeland Park is on its way to another one, this time near the intersection of 75th
