Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...
A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in Kansas City, Kansas ... or not bickering at the local and state level slowed TB response, it certainly made things harder.
The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is ... of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...
Historically, health outcomes in Wyandotte County have ranked well ... CEO of El Centro. TB is preventable and treatable — yet Kansas has consistently refused to expand Medicaid, weakened ...
KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...