Healthcare

The Post-Pandemic Health Care (Staffing) Crisis

KC health care workers tell all about the toll recurring COVID-19 surges took on them. And what they need.

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Samuel Rodgers Planning $15M Pediatric Wing at Health Campus

By Kevin Collison Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center is planning to build a four-story pediatrics wing at Seventh and Euclid, the latest project in the works for its campus near downtown. The health center’s plan for a what’s described as a two-level, 32,000 square-foot  medical office building atop a 382-space, two-level garage is scheduled to…

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A mushroom.

It May Be Time to Change Your Mind About Psychedelics

Psilocybin, ketamine and MDMA may offer new hope for people dealing with depression, PTSD, cancer and other conditions.

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Colorful illustrations of nursing staff, physicians and other medical staff are scattered on a backdrop of multi-colored half circles.

curiousKC | Submit A Community Letter to KC’s Health Care Workers

What do you want to share about a health care worker in your life?

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House Budget Chairman Cody Smith, R-Carthage.

Parson Signs $4.6B Spending Plan, House Approves Bill Targeting Medicaid Expansion

The first bill sent to Gov. Mike Parson from this year’s legislative session includes a pay raise for state employees, money to fund Medicaid through the end of the fiscal year and federal COVID-19 recovery funding for schools.

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