News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Kansas health officials: ‘Unprecedented’ Flu Season
A top health official at the University of Kansas Hospital said the severity of this year’s flu outbreak is requiring inpatient admissions at a rate more than three times that which it generally sees during flu season.
One Key To Helping Veterans Overcome Mental Health Problems – Peer Support
The Clay Hunt SAV Act, named for a Marine who committed suicide in 2011, would create a peer support and community outreach pilot program and an interactive website to help veterans find resources in their area. It also would offer student loan repayment to psychiatrists who choose to work at the VA and require annual evaluations of suicide prevention programs within the VA and the U.S. Department of Defense to determine their effectiveness.
Wounded Veterans Return To Unprepared Medical System
A sniper’s bullet tore through U.S. Army Sgt. Jamie Jarboe’s neck while he was on patrol during a tour of duty in Afghanistan in April 2011. The bullet shattered three vertebrae, severed Jarboe’s spinal cord and caused severe bleeding. It was the kind of wound that almost certainly would have been fatal in previous conflicts….
Who likes lists? We do.
It’s that time of year, when nearly every news outlet and publication comes up with some sort of list to try and make sense of the previous twelve months. Here at Flatland, we are no different. We’ve compiled some of the top stories from the Kansas City Metro Area using Flipboard, a simple application that…
Changes in store for KC Regional Health Care Initiative
During the past eight years, the philanthropic community has spent about $8 million on a wide-ranging program aimed at improving health services for low-income individuals in the Kansas City area.
The REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (HCF) have provided nearly three quarters of the total funding. But now, the collaboration and the various efforts it has spawned are taking on a more targeted approach heading into 2015.
KC area named ‘Climate Action Champion’
Earlier this month, the Kansas City region was named one of 16 Climate Action Champions by the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy. This year’s class of award recipients also includes Boston, Knoxville, Seattle and others.
Kansas City area named as ‘Climate Action Champion’
Earlier this month, the Kansas City region was named one of 16 Climate Action Champions by the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy. This year’s class of award recipients also includes Boston, Knoxville, Seattle and others.
Mission: Christmas
In the madness of the consumption and overspending that has become Christmas, there is nothing more humbling than knowing people’s lives will be changed by gift packages containing the most basic of necessities — toothpaste, undershirts, socks. City Union Mission is a Christian organization located in downtown Kansas City that provides food, shelter and other…
KC-area hospitals penalized for infection rates and safety issues
Eleven Kansas City-area hospitals have been hit with penalties for hospital-acquired infections and other complications that Medicare deems avoidable.
The hospitals’ Medicare payments will be docked by 1 percent in the fiscal year that runs from October 2014 through September 2015.
Bridging the gap between military and business
Bob Ulin joined the Army in 1959; he was just 17 years old. He was a private in Germany when the Berlin wall went up. Later, he joined the National Guard in California and volunteered to go to Vietnam for two years. He served in the military until 1992, when he retired as a full…