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A Marion County, Kansas, judge on Friday appointed a receiver to run Hillsboro Community Hospital after its lender moved to foreclose on the 15-bed...
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An eleventh-hour payment of $16,644 for delinquent utility bills averted a threatened cutoff of electricity at tiny Hillsboro Community Hospital in...
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Nearly two years after Mercy Hospital closed its doors, the southeast Kansas town of Independence is still without a hospital.But it may have the next…
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Twenty-four-year-old Kalee Woody says that when she was growing up in Bronaugh, Missouri, she saw the small town slowly fading. Businesses closed, growth…
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Dr. Saeedeh Salmanzadeh became a U.S. citizen at a naturalization ceremony in October 2015.When the presiding official asked if any of the new citizens…
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback unveiled a two-part plan Friday to bring more doctors to the state and quell health care shortages that he said threaten to kill…
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A task force charged with addressing the problems of health care delivery in rural Kansas met for nearly five hours in Salina yesterday. As Heartland…
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The University of Kansas Hospital and Hays Medical Center announced Wednesday they’ve signed a letter of intent to join forces as partners.The partnership…
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A recent report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says rural Americans are gaining health insurance coverage through the Affordable…
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Rural hospitals are struggling to stay open as the communities around them shrink. Some have an average census of one or two patients a day. But one small…