Health Care

The order from County Executive Sam Page extends existing programs at the health department and expands patient counseling and anti-bias and anti-racism training, as well as clinical training around contraception.

More than 600 local high school students have attended the Best Healthcare Institute. The program boasts a 100% college acceptance rate.

Through a combination of quiet singing and gentle touch, music therapy can help ease stress for premature infants.

Research has found Medicaid expansion is linked to lower rates of people reoffending, and a key aspect appears to be mental health care.

Health insurance can present barriers to care. Some physicians are choosing to open clinics that charge membership fees instead.

Missouri had the 4th highest rate in the country of residents taking benzodiazepines, and that was before the pandemic amped up anxiety.

Mayor Tishaura Jones, state Rep. Kimberly-Ann Collins and Alderwoman Dwinderlin Evans say they agree with residents that naming a small hospital for Homer G. Phillips threatens his legacy.

Some north St. Louis residents are against a plan to name a new medical building Homer G. Phillips Hospital. They say the three-bed facility built by developer Paul McKee isn’t fit to be named after the training hospital that served the Black community for decades.

The ransomware group known as Hive has stolen confidential patient information from Sikeston-based Missouri Delta Medical Center, including Social Security numbers and medical information.

In northeast Missouri, where low populations translate into small hospitals, there were no ICU beds available.