These state hospitals can’t find full-time staff. Contract nurses are needed to serve patients, but expenses keep going up.

Fort Larned, Kansas, will be the site for rediscovered history of the Hancock Expedition and the Cheyenne-Lakota Indian Village on April 27. On April 19, 1867, Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock ordered a ...

At one state-operated mental health hospital in Kansas, nearly two out of five jobs sit empty. To make up for the staff shortage, roughly $170,000 in overtime is paid out every two weeks. Another ...

The troubled Larned State Hospital has a new superintendent. Veteran state attorney Bill Rein has been named to head the facility, which provides inpatient treatment for people from the western ...

Larned Middle School is a public school located in Larned, KS, which is in a remote town setting. The student population of Larned Middle School is 195 and the school serves 6-8. At Larned Middle ...

The Isaac Ray building at the Larned State Hospital is pictured in this file photo. TOPEKA — In the latest legal move over “one of the worst ongoing human rights crises” in the state, a federal ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Pawnee County Attorney Douglas W. McNett said Thursday that a state correctional officer was arrested for bringing contraband into the Larned State Correctional Facility and ...

LARNED? If it weren’t for the security guards and the barbed-wire fence, it might pass for a community-college campus. The Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned State Hospital lies in the center ...

Kansas will close a state juvenile correctional facility in Larned over the next 12 months. The Kansas Department of Corrections announced the plans to close Larned Juvenile Correctional Facility late ...

Just because you carry it, doesn't mean it isn't heavy. Life can be unpredictable, unfair, and oh so HEAVY at times. Fortunately, we don't have to carry these burdens alone. If you find yourself in a ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Update: In a response to the letter signed by 59 Kansas sheriffs, secretary for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services Laura Howard wrote that “a number of ...