Thirty Kansas hospitals recently received grades from an independent watchdog group that assigns letter grades to hospitals ...

Certificate of Need (CON) laws are regulations that require healthcare facilities to obtain state approval before expanding their practices, such as building new facilities, adding to existing ...

Pittsburg State and Northwest play in Kansas City at Children’s Mercy Park. Both teams enter ranked and fight for MIAA title and playoff seeding. Both teams run top MIAA rushing attacks; Northwest ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has announced that construction has begun on the KBI Regional Crime Center and Laboratory. The new facility will be located in Pittsburg. In a ...

This billboard adorns the site of what was to be a new hospital in Frontenac proclaims Freeman Health System’s plan to build a new hospital in Southeast Kansas. On Wednesday, Freeman officials ...

Freeman Health System is no longer moving forward with a project to build a hospital on the north side of Pittsburg, Kansas. In a press release, the hospital says results of a comprehensive ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Lawmakers are continuing to brainstorm solutions to combat a nursing shortage in Kansas. Kansas is heavily relying on contract nursing and it’s costing the state 60-million ...

TerraPower, a nuclear energy company co-founded by Bill Gates, is exploring Kansas as a potential site for a new advanced nuclear reactor. The company, utility provider Evergy and Kansas state ...

Nonprofit healthcare organization Freeman Health System (Joplin, Mo.) opened Freeman Fort Scott hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., according to the website freemanhealth.com. The facility houses 10 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (WICHITA BUSINESS JOURNAL) - One of Wichita's largest physician groups is set to become an affiliate of Kansas City-based pediatric hospital Children's Mercy. Mid-Kansas Pediatric ...

Joplin, Mo.-based Freeman Health System opened its Freeman Fort Scott (Kan.) Hospital on Sept. 4. The 10-bed acute care hospital also comprises a six-bed emergency department. Freeman Health shared ...

Bonnie L. Amershek, 86, of Frontenac, Kansas died on Monday, September 15, 2025 at Freeman Hospital at Joplin, Missouri. Bonnie was born August 29, 1939 in Pittsburg, Kansas, the daughter of Clarence ...