Rural Kansas hospitals bridge urban rural care gaps
Rural Kansans face limited access to high end technology and specialists with longer transport times. Telemedicine and air ambulance expansion help, while small town hospitals upgrade CT scanners ultrasound and other equipment to stabilize and transfer patients quickly.
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Beverly Glass
Dodge City
Western Plains Medical Complex
Kansas
Alan Morgan
National Rural Health Association
Mickey Thomas
Meade District Hospital
Sandy Cameron
Kearny County Hospital
Far
Cameron
Kearny County
Meade Hospital
Wilson County Hospital
Neadesha
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital
Deanna Pittman
Neodesha Hospital
Thomas
Bob Cox
Hays Medical Center
Cox
Pittman
County faces rising inmate medical costs and transport bills
The Finney County sheriff reports spiraling inmate health care expenses with hospitalizations topping 120000 this year and doctor visits at 43000. Budget strain prompts cost-cutting, a nurse practitioner program, a new prescription vendor, and debates over state aid and inmate work programs to curb costs.
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Bascue
Hays
Finney County
Bob Baker
Baker
Health Department
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