Health Care Delivery

Study proposes better accountability for graduate medical education programs

0 | Jun. 17, 2013 | Workforce

The federal government spends billions each year to support programs that train doctors, but the number of physicians who choose primary care or rural practice remains inadequate despite repeated calls for greater program accountability. A new article published in the journal "Academic Medicine" proposes ways to better measure the results of graduate medical education.

Truman hospital's $6M expansion part of growing cancer treatment effort

0 | Jun. 13, 2013 | KU Medical Center, Hospitals

When Truman Medical Centers opens its expanded cancer-treatment center next year, hospital officials say the $6 million expansion will make the facility more comfortable and convenient for patients.

Obamacare a concern for school districts, particularly rural ones

2 | Jun. 10, 2013 | Community Health, Health Reform, Insurance

School administrators at small, rural districts around the state say they are alarmed and confounded by the looming, new costs they face with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

State officials submit first quarterly KanCare report to feds

2 | Jun. 07, 2013 | KanCare, Medicaid-CHIP

Kansas officials this week made public their first quarterly report to federal authorities on the progress of KanCare, Gov. Sam Brownback's initiative to move virtually all the state's Medicaid enrollees into privately run managed care plans.

Hospital to get $3M boost after petition fails

0 | Jun. 05, 2013 | Workforce, Hospitals, Rural Health

The community hospital here is set to receive the $3 million boost officials say is needed to keep its doors open after petitioners failed to gather enough signatures to put the bond issue to a vote.