The Missouri House gave bipartisan approval Thursday to legislation that would help Medicaid recipients get healthy, locally grown food if they have been diagnosed with chronic diet-related illnesses. One bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Holly Jones of Eureka, passed 121 to 18. Most of its provisions are also included in a wide-ranging bill sponsored […]
(The Center Square) - Leaders in the healthcare industry called on the Trump administration to exercise caution as it goes after fraud.
Senior Cullen Klepzig is the first St. Pius X High School student to gain acceptance into a program intended to help produce doctors that thos…
The Rock Township Ambulance District is the first emergency medical service provider to offer a program to expand its services into homes befo…
A longtime Jefferson County health care provider recently opened Family Psychiatric and Addiction Care Clinic in Hillsboro with a goal of prov…
Students from Valley Middle School in House Springs participated in its annual “Merry for Charity” event on Dec. 19, a morning dedicated to cr…
The new respiratory season is officially underway, and the Jefferson County Health Department will hold a drive-thru flu vaccine clinic on Friday.
The Jefferson County Health Department is shifting the direction of its dental program to focus on children. Effective Friday, June 27, the ad…
Deborah Ann Portell, 70, of Crystal City died Feb. 26, 2025, at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Crystal City. Mrs. Portell worked as a nurse’s aid…
A $5.2 million renovation project should produce oohs and aahs from people, and that is exactly what happened at the Oct. 10 ribbon-cutting ce…