Tim Wolters, director of reimbursement at Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, knows rural health care well, and the ...

Rural Missourians voted heavily in support of medical marijuana legalization in 2018 and seem to have welcomed it readily into their communities. Come November, they could be the deciding votes on ...

Takeaways . Opioid overdose deaths are dropping in Missouri, falling from 1,493 in 2021 to 876 in 2024. Access to Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, has helped reduce those deaths.

In Kansas City, hospitals are treating local COVID-19 patients as well as patients transferred from rural counties in Missouri and Kansas, where there's no mandate or culture for wearing masks.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Help could be on the way to give doctors in Missouri relief from their student loan debt. House Bill (HB) 542 would’ve awarded $4.9 million to expand an existing program ...

The way nurse practitioners now can care for patients with a doctor's supervision may help alleviate a shortage of accessible health care in rural areas of Missouri. New allowances in state law on ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly made rural redevelopment a central part of her first speech to lawmakers. “The majority of our 105 counties lost population last year, and for many years prior to that ...

Rural parts of Missouri, ... “We’re in a rural area so there weren’t really other programs to address those issues,” said Keene-Frye, who is also Charlie Keene’s sister.

Central Missouri and the St. Louis area saw the largest drop in drug overdose deaths, dropping 38% and 35%, respectively. But after responding to opioid overdose calls for years, Hicks sees the need ...