MSSC event focusing on fentanyl crisis
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, has unleashed the most lethal narcotics crisis in U.S. history – and its deadly reach extends to Sedgwick
Read More...Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, has unleashed the most lethal narcotics crisis in U.S. history – and its deadly reach extends to Sedgwick
Read More...Health ICT A selection of notable successes in 2022: Supported a Wichita pharmacy with establishing an accredited Diabetes Self-Management Education & Support (DSMES) program. Health ICT also supported a county
Read More...There is a new, updated form for documenting the treatment wishes of patients at the end of life. The formerly bright pink TPOPP form (Transportable Phy¬sician Orders for Patient Preferences)
Read More...Fentanyl overdoses are killing record numbers of Sedgwick County residents, setting physicians and first responders on edge. In the last few years, the number of fentanyl overdose deaths in Sedgwick
Read More...People who die of suicide are much more likely to have seen a primary care doctor in the months prior to their death, according to a new report released by
Read More...Relaxed guidelines released this month from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention essentially granted license to individuals to determine how to protect themselves and others from spreading COVID-19. But
Read More...Mostly decked out in blue scrubs in a quiet area of his office, Wichita psychiatrist Larry Mitnaul, MD, has figured out how to reach patients where few docs have gone
Read More...On the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, the monkeypox virus has made its presence known in the U.S., stealing headlines, veering into politics and creating plenty of watercooler fodder. But
Read More...The latest infant mortality data for Kansas show a substantial jump in Black infant mortality rates over 2019, blindsiding groups who work to increase infant survival rates across the state.
Read More...In honor of Val Brown Sr., MD, who died in April at age 98, and in recognition of his family’s three generations of physicians serving Wichita, the MSSC Board of
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