by Anthony Morabith | Mar 29, 2024 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
The state Senate has given initial approval to legislation that would create a prescribed pediatric extended-care center license issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS). The bill from Sen. Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, focuses on providing...
by Anthony Morabith | Dec 14, 2023 | News, Politics / Govt
Employee recruitment and retention continues to be a problem at the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Valerie Huhn, the department’s director, told a panel of state lawmakers that workforce is the most significant barrier to the department performing the services...
by Anthony Morabith | Oct 23, 2023 | Health / Medicine, News
A taskforce of lawmakers has been meeting monthly since the summer to better understand Missouri’s substance abuse crisis and find ways to address it. Doug Burgess, an addiction psychiatry professor at University Health in Kansas City, said step one towards treating...
by Bill Pollock | Sep 5, 2023 | News, Show Me Today
988 was designated as the new Suicide & Crisis Lifeline last year and is now active across not only Missouri but the United States. Later this week, two events are scheduled to honor the anniversary of the 988 activation and the upcoming expansion of mental health...
by Mike Lear | Feb 26, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
A House budget subcommittee has rejected including federal money for Medicaid expansion in the budgets for the Departments of Mental Health, Social Services and Health and Senior Services. Representative Judy Morgan (D-Kansas City) proposed a return to Governor Jay...