University of Kansas Hospital
KANSAS CITY, KAN.—With the Kansas Department of Health and Environment referring to the current flu outbreak as an “epidemic,” The University of Kansas Hospital reports there continue to be significant numbers of patients in the hospital with confirmed cases of the flu, but the hospital is currently accommodating the surge.
The latest numbers from the hospital show 23 inpatients with confirmed cases of the flu with 13 others hospitalized with flu like symptoms and awaiting laboratory confirmations of a flu diagnosis.
There have been two flu deaths among hospital patients in the last two weeks.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Friday, December 26, 2014
Medicaid expansion, local revenues on top of UG agenda for Kansas Legislature
The expansion of Medicaid in the State of Kansas and protecting local revenue funds are two of the top agenda items for the Unified Government as the Kansas Legislature session begins next month.
Unified Government Commissioners met earlier this month to discuss the upcoming session.
UG Public Affairs Director Mike Taylor, who serves as the government's lobbyist in Topeka, said there will be a fight with the Republican-dominated legislature on most issues.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Kansas veteran worries exposure to hazardous fumes cause of health problems
By Andy Marso
KHI News Service
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Four months ago, U.S. Army veteran Brandon Garrison played in an all-day softball tournament, a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project.
“The tournament was on a Saturday,” Garrison said. “The next day I woke up and I couldn’t walk.”
Garrison, a 28-year-old from Leavenworth, experienced debilitating muscle pain for several days and was hospitalized at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facility. He left with a cane that he was still using last month.
After multiple wartime deployments to Afghanistan as an infantryman and a supply specialist, Garrison has health conditions that are explainable: traumatic brain injury from the concussive blasts of explosives and post-traumatic stress disorder from the strain of combat.
But he also has conditions that are harder to explain: nerve twitches, muscle weakness, fibromyalgia, chronic prostatitis, low testosterone.
KHI News Service
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Four months ago, U.S. Army veteran Brandon Garrison played in an all-day softball tournament, a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project.
“The tournament was on a Saturday,” Garrison said. “The next day I woke up and I couldn’t walk.”
Garrison, a 28-year-old from Leavenworth, experienced debilitating muscle pain for several days and was hospitalized at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facility. He left with a cane that he was still using last month.
After multiple wartime deployments to Afghanistan as an infantryman and a supply specialist, Garrison has health conditions that are explainable: traumatic brain injury from the concussive blasts of explosives and post-traumatic stress disorder from the strain of combat.
But he also has conditions that are harder to explain: nerve twitches, muscle weakness, fibromyalgia, chronic prostatitis, low testosterone.
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