The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way many of us visit our doctors. Instead of in-person visits, patients are increasingly seeing their physicians via a computer or smartphone, avoiding a crowded office full of sick…

Polly Barker remembers “dressing up like a spaceman” to treat HIV/AIDS patients in 1981, when she was a student nurse. Fear and uncertainty surrounded the new disease, and healthcare professionals took extra precautions with personal…

Allen County Regional Hospital is hoping the government stimulus package will provide some financial relief to recover from losses expected from the coronavirus pandemic. Rural hospitals are facing significant revenue losses as they have shifted…

Efforts to organize a drive-thru or centralized testing site for the COVID-19 coronavirus have been scrapped amid changing requirements by the state. Current procedures at three Iola health clinics are sufficient, and administrators from each…

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to increase in Kansas — including one in neighboring Woodson County — Allen County Regional Hospital is preparing for the likelihood of cases here. The most visible change…

The coronavirus pandemic is causing a few hiccups with Allen County Regional Hospital’s switch to a lease under the Saint Luke’s Health System, but the process continues.  Saint Luke’s officials have reduced travel to ACRH…

Allen County Regional Hospital will further tighten visitor restrictions starting Friday morning amid efforts to limit potential coronavirus exposure to staff and patients, particularly the elderly. No visitors will be allowed at the hospital with…

The first “person under investigation” for possible COVID-19 illness has prompted more restrictive precautions at Allen County Regional Hospital. No cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Allen County, though cases have been…

Visitors to Allen County Regional Hospital will need to check themselves before they enter the facility, an early precaution to keep visitors from spreading illness to others and hospital staff amid concerns about a deadly…

Wash your hands and stay home if you are sick. It’s simple advice that will be repeated again and again as the local community, the nation and the world adjust to a deadly new coronavirus,…