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How long ER visits take in Kansas and Missouri

A typical emergency room visit runs about two hours in Kansas and 2.5 in Missouri, per new federal data. Why it matters: These times are your baseline for the worst-day math — how long a trip to the ER actually takes here — and it's less time than most of the country spends.

Kansas · 08-27

WGEM

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Monroe City nursing home administrator named Administrator of the Year for District 6

Monroe City, MO · 08-28

WGEM

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‘It’s in memory of my mother-in-law’: New mobile podiatry service coming to the Tri-States

Missouri · 08-27

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Health officials recommend measles vaccine after Missouri's herd immunity drops

MISSOURI—The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MO-DHSS) says more of Missouri needs to receive vaccinations for measles, saying that the state is susceptible to an outbreak risk. “We’re below the 95% needed for herd immunity, which means outbreaks can spread fast in our communities,” said the department....

Missouri · 08-27
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Statewide Regional Haze Air Pollution Public Hearing Today

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. JEFFERSON CITY, MO — Today, the Missouri Air Conservation Commission will hold...

Missouri · 08-28

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Delta Dental of Missouri Expands Care Access

SPONSORED- Stacy Harris, Executive Director of Community Impact for Delta Dental of Missouri visits StudioSTL to discuss Missouri’s shortage of dental professionals. Delta Dental of Missouri’s is making efforts to expand access to care through workforce development initiatives and statewide partnerships to help ensure Missourians have access to the care they need today and in the future. Watch to learn more about the PACT program and visit deltadentalmo.com to find a provider near you.

Missouri · 08-26

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Contaminated water ways

Newton County, MO · 08-25

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MU program gives future health care providers firsthand look at rural Missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo., (KBSI) — A University of Missouri program is giving future health care professionals firsthand experience in rural communities as the state works to address provider shortages and access to care. The Rural Immersion Program, a partnership between the MU School of Medicine’s Rural Scholars Program and MU...

Columbia, MO · 08-25

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Missouri’s ‘Food is Medicine’ Act takes effect Friday, aims to help Medicare and Medicaid patients afford nutritious food

A new law called the “Food is Medicine” Act takes effect Friday, Aug. 28, establishing a program to help pay for nutritional food for people on Medicare and Medicaid.

Missouri · 08-27

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New contamination study on some Missouri waterways

Missouri · 08-26

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Missouri dental practice outgrows current office, plans new location

A dental practice in Fulton, Mo., is planning a new location after outgrowing its current office, according to an Aug. 22 report from Fulton Sun. Fulton Dental Center is seeking a rezoning of a property that will be the site of the new practice, which will have space for three dentists and up to 25 additional staff members.

Fulton, MO · 08-24

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Missouri Medicaid enrollment is dropping, and the biggest cuts are still months away

The biggest changes in Medicaid's history are still five months away, but legislators, medical policy advocates, and other organizations that work with people enrolled in the public marketplace worry Missourians aren't prepared. "We don't want anyone to have to go to the pharmacy and find out they can't get their...

Missouri · 08-22

Missouri Independent

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Missouri placed diabetic teen in a foster home not licensed to take him. He died 24 days later

It was after 5 p.m. on May 13, and 17-year-old Korbin Papadopoulos sat in the Macon County office of the Missouri Children’s Division waiting for his next foster placement. Korbin had type 1 diabetes and autism, so his caseworker, another division worker and their supervisor searched the state’s foster provider database for a home licensed […]

Macon County, MO · 08-21

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Missouri Medicaid enrollment is dropping, and the biggest cuts are still months away

The biggest changes in Medicaid’s history are still five months away, but legislators, medical policy advocates, and other organizations that work with people enrolled in the public marketplace worry Missourians aren’t prepared. “We don’t want anyone to have to go to the pharmacy and find out they can’t...

Missouri · 08-21

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Missouri Medicaid enrollment is dropping, and the biggest cuts are still months away

The biggest changes in Medicaid's history are still five months away, but legislators, medical policy advocates, and other organizations that work with people enrolled in the public marketplace worry Missourians aren't prepared. "We don't want anyone to have to go to the pharmacy and find out they can't get their...

Missouri · 08-21

KOMU

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Report: feces in 85% of Missouri recreational waterways

A new report finds potentially unsafe levels of fecal contamination at 85% of monitored recreational waterways in Missouri, raising concerns for people swimming, boating and spending time in the state’s rivers, lakes and streams. The Environment America Research & Policy Center analyzed water quality data from the National Water...

Missouri · 08-19

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Small schedule change has big health benefits for night-shift docs

Researchers have found that a simple scheduling change can improve the health and well-being of physicians working overnight shifts. In a recent study, Matthew Robinson, chair of the emergency medicine department of in the School of Medicine at University of Missouri, examined emergency medicine physicians who regularly rotate between shifts. Rather than working their usual 10 PM to 6 AM shift during night rotations, physicians worked from 8 PM to 4 AM.

Columbia, MO · 08-20

Missouri Independent

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Missouri must fix Medicaid’s paperwork problem before work requirements begin​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

More than 300,000 Missourians lost Medicaid coverage. Ninety-two percent of them weren’t found ineligible. They lost coverage because of paperwork. That number should shape how Missouri prepares for federal Medicaid work requirements, which take effect Jan. 1, 2027.  A proposal to write work requirements into the state constitution passed the Republican-led House this year but […]

Missouri · 08-20

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Report: feces in 85% of Missouri recreational waterways

A new report finds potentially unsafe levels of fecal contamination at 85% of monitored recreational waterways in Missouri, raising concerns for people swimming, boating and spending time in the state’s rivers, lakes and streams. The Environment America Research & Policy Center analyzed water quality data from the National Water...

Missouri · 08-17

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Missouri must fix Medicaid’s paperwork problem before work requirements begin​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent).More than 300,000 Missourians lost Medicaid coverage. Ninety-two percent of them weren’t found ineligible. They lost coverage because of paperwork. That number should shape how Missouri prepares for federal Medicaid work requirements, which take effect Jan. 1, 2027. A proposal to write work requirements into the state...

Missouri · 08-20