Carrie Willis ran a COVID ward at St. Luke’s East Hospital in 2020 and 2021. Five years after Kansas City began restricting gatherings and ordering people to stay at home, Willis says health care — ...

These state hospitals can’t find full-time staff. Contract nurses are needed to serve patients, but expenses keep going up.

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials on Tuesday urged communities to take stronger action as more hospital rooms are devoted to caring for coronavirus patients and hundreds of doctors, nurses ...

St. Luke's Health Systems improperly fired an employee when it didn’t accept a religious exemption request to the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Court of Appeal of the State of Kansas. The ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - National data from the CDC shows test positivity, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations were all up for COVID-19 at the end of August. Locally, both University Health ...

The FDA on Thursday approved two newly updated COVID-19 vaccines amid a nationwide uptick in infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that all people aged 6 months and older ...

Getting a COVID shot in Kansas City in 2025 has gotten more complicated. Under Donald Trump's administration, pharmacy chains, insurance companies and government agencies caught in a web of ...

Sitting in a recliner in her south Kansas City home, wearing a bright pink sweater, matching lipstick, and with her nails neatly manicured, Shantell Williams recalls the months she spent recovering ...

When going to the hospital for a surgery or illness, you trust that the medical staff will treat your condition well. But if your nurses and doctors don’t wash their hands or give you the wrong ...