Recently, hospital Chief Medical Officer Lowell Ebersole, DO, grabbed some trash bags, PPE and other supplies and began emptying trash cans and restocking shelves in patient rooms in the medical
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At MSSC’s first large in-person membership meeting of 2021 on Dec. 7, outgoing President Stephen Grindel, DO, praised the medical community’s response to the pandemic. “The past two years were
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State and local public health departments across the country are facing an uncertain future. A New York Times report found that many health departments have endured not only resistance and
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The 2021 documentary “Black Men in White Coats” pulls no punches: Black men are dying from preventable medical conditions, in large part because there are not enough Black male physicians.
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Fewer children died in 2019 than during any other year since the state of Kansas began reviewing childhood deaths in 1994. The State Child Death Review Board this month released
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Dr. Garold Minns received a lifetime achievement award from the Wichita Business Journal as part of the newspaper’s annual Health Care Heroes recognitions. Minns, who is dean of the KU
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Medical Provider Resources (MPR) opened its doors in 2011, well-versed in providing physician verification services with a long history of excellence in staff credentialing expertise. Today, as it celebrates its
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Because of COVID-19 concerns, MSSC canceled its September membership meeting that was to feature two new leaders in the community: Teresa Miller, president and CEO of the Kansas Health Foundation,
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Ascension, the parent company of Ascension Via Christi, on July 27 announced it would require all of its associates to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 12. This includes everyone,
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The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. is once again overwhelming our hospitals, taxing overworked doctors and nurses, and worrying physicians who haven’t yet recovered from the
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