Hospitals in ‘crisis’ as staff shortages persist at mental health centers
Hospitals across Missouri are facing a “crisis” caring for patients in acute care settings who can’t find long-term care through…
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Hospitals’, nursing homes’ power to limit COVID visitors will be restricted
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Missouri lawmakers sent to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk legislation that aims to ensure residents…
Missouri hospitals ask office workers to help nurses
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hospitals across Missouri are asking staff members and administrators to take on additional duties to help…
Surge in virus hospitalizations makes transfers difficult
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The current surge in virus cases in Missouri driven by the spread of the highly contagious…
Advocates, lawmakers push hospitals to help more with bills
Swamped with medical bills? The hospital that treated you may be able to help. Whether you learn about this before…
Lack of vaccine mandate gives some hospitals competitive edge in staffing wars
In the rural northeastern corner of Missouri, Scotland County Hospital has been so low on staff that it sometimes had…
Missouri hospitals sue to block changes in Medicaid payments
After obtaining some relief from lawmakers for revenue cuts likely from a change in the way Medicaid pays for outpatient services, Missouri…
As holidays loom, hospitals ‘can’t keep up this tempo’
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dr. Alex Garza is warning that doctors and nurses are becoming exhausted as the virus surges…
Missouri to bring in health care workers from other states
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri plans to bring in hundreds of health care workers from other states to help provide…
Hospital bed, ICU capacity becoming more limited in Missouri
(AP) — Hospital beds across Missouri are nearly four-fifths full, and capacity is even more limited in intensive care units…
Surging virus cases get a shrug in many Midwestern towns
ELMWOOD, Neb. (AP) — Danny Rice has a good sense of how dangerous the coronavirus can be. What puzzles him…
U.S. counties with worst virus surges backed Trump
U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic,…
Kansas City-area hospitals overwhelmed, turn away ambulances
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations is so severe in the Kansas City area…
Hospitals on financial brink may succumb to coronavirus
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Randy Tobler says his Missouri hospital has until mid-May before it runs out of money…
Hospitals scramble to stretch supplies as virus cases surge
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Nurses and other front-line medical workers at BJC HealthCare, SSM Health, Mercy and a veterans hospital…
Hospitals put elective procedures on hold
Hospitals in the St. Louis area are cancelling all elective procedures starting Monday in an effort to slow the spread…