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Surgeon Jace Hyder performs a ventral hernia repair at Galichia Heart Hospital.

Hospital cuts rates for the uninsured, hoping to draw patients from all over

BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Today at 2:18 a.m.

In an effort to draw new customers, Galichia Heart Hospital is cutting rates for uninsured patients and those with high deductibles.

  • Andover med center joins PHS network

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 5 at 12:07 a.m.

    Kansas Medical Center in Andover has signed a contract with Preferred Health Systems, making the medical center part of the PHS network.

  • Wichita doctors look to state to start health information exchange

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 5 at 1:50 a.m.

    Wichita's health care community has stepped back from planning a health information exchange, deferring to efforts to create a statewide system supported by federal funding.

  • Senator: Health bill may wait till 2010

    By DAVID ESPO, Associated Press | Nov. 3 at 11:03 p.m.

    WASHINGTON — In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure's fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.

  • H1N1 tied to 2 more Kansas deaths

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 2 at 11:04 p.m.

    A 53-year-old woman from Sedgwick County has died of complications associated with the H1N1 virus, health officials said Monday.

  • House calls a possible health care solution

    By PAULINE ARRILLAGA, Associated Press | Nov. 1 at 12:03 a.m.

    RICHMOND, Va. —The doctor doesn't look like much of a crusader, bent over the frail frame of 90-year-old Alberta Scott.

  • GOP offers health plan options

    By WILL LESTER, Associated Press | Nov. 1 at 12:03 a.m.

    WASHINGTON — Republicans have the answers to lower health costs and expanded coverage, not the Democrats who hold power in Washington and are creating more problems as they "recklessly pursue" a government takeover of the health care system, a GOP leader said.

  • Only small percentage may opt for public plan

    By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press | Nov. 1 at 5:16 p.m.

    WASHINGTON — What's all the fuss about?

  • Your flu questions answered

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 2 at 8:54 a.m.

    H1N1's grip on the state is holding steady, according to a new report from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The absence rate at schools continues to be high. In Sedgwick County, the rate at elementary schools dropped last week but went up at middle and high schools.

  • 3rd quarter better than expected for Coventry

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 31 at 12:03 a.m.

    Coventry Health Care had a better-than-expected third quarter, CEO Allen Wise said Friday, with operating revenue of $3.4 billion and net earnings of $70.6 million.

  • Cap on out-of-pocket costs considered

    By David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers | Oct. 29 at 6 a.m.

    WASHINGTON — Consumers would be spared having to pay huge medical bills under Democratic health care legislation that's moving through Congress, as lawmakers agree on the need to put limits on how much people would pay out of their own pockets.

  • DEA efforts affect those in hospice, nursing care

    By Carrie Johnson, Washington Post | Oct. 29 at 1:04 a.m.

    WASHINGTON — Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication, according to two Senate Democrats and a coalition of pharmacists and geriatric experts.

  • Medical research is shot in Wichita's arm

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 29 at 6:17 a.m.

    Medical research makes a multimillion-dollar annual impact in Wichita, and even bigger payoffs may be coming down the line.

  • FDA cracks down on flu 'remedies'

    By Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post | Oct. 28 at 1:05 a.m.

    WASHINGTON — A shampoo that prevents airborne virus particles that settle on the scalp from causing swine flu. Special disposable gloves that offer protection from ATMs, door handles or steering wheels that might be "contaminated" with H1N1. A "natural immunization" that purports to be a safer alternative to a flu shot.

  • Psych drugs blamed in kids' rapid weight gain

    By LINDSEY TANNER, Associated Press | Oct. 28 at 1:05 a.m.

    CHICAGO — Children on widely used psychiatric drugs can quickly gain an alarming amount of weight; many pack on nearly 20 pounds and become obese within just 11 weeks, a study found.

  • Panel says government ill-prepared for pandemic

    By William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers | Nov. 2 at 8:54 a.m.

    WASHINGTON — The federal government's preparedness for the H1N1, or swine, flu pandemic that has claimed for more than 1,000 lives nationwide was inadequate and incomplete, a congressional subcommittee said Tuesday.

  • Work to begin soon on new hospital near Arkansas City

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 22 at 12:09 a.m.

    Work should begin within the next two weeks, and possibly as early as Monday, on a new hospital near Arkansas City.

  • Legend hopes to expand new facility

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 17 at 12:05 a.m.

    At the ribbon cutting Friday for Legend Senior Living's Regent independent living retirement center, founder and CEO Tim Buchanan said he expects the company to expand its properties here.

  • Via Christi hospitals to get new names

    BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 13 at 5:57 a.m.

    When Via Christi Health announced its new name and logo Oct. 1, it embarked on a rebranding effort that will change the names of some facilities and operations over the next three years.

  • Some say penalties for no health insurance may not be deterrent

    Eagle staff and wire services | Oct. 11 at 12:58 a.m.

    Medical bills forced Sara and Jimmy King, an uninsured Topeka couple with four children, into bankruptcy. After they climbed out, they were faced with new medical bills and recently learned they owe $8,000 for a 5-year-old bill from the hospital where one of their children was born.

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