Johnson County

Disparities also reflected in mental health cost data

Post date: October 29, 2013 11:14 AM
Submitted by natasha on October 29, 2013 11:14 AM

By Mike Sherry, HCF guest blogger and KHI News Service journalist

Though they share a border, Johnson and Wyandotte counties often occupy different ends of the spectrum when it comes to health rankings.

Wealthy Johnson County typically outshines its working class neighbor to the north, as is the case with the annual report issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

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Corinth Elementary implements walking school bus

Post date: July 31, 2013 4:03 PM
Submitted by natasha on July 31, 2013 4:03 PM

By Kristen Albert, Corinth Elementary School nurse and walking school bus organizer

erasersIn spring 2012, I received an email about a walking school bus program in our school district, and I took an interest because our school, Corinth Elementary, is located on a busy intersection with some safety concerns for students heading to school.

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When it comes to health reform, there’s a difference between more affordable and less expensive

Post date: May 23, 2013 10:41 AM
Submitted by natasha on May 23, 2013 10:41 AM

By Mike Sherry, HCF guest blogger and KHI News Service journalist

Word that millions of dollars in Affordable Care Act funding is available to help people find their way around the new health insurance exchanges has left me feeling conflicted.

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Johnson County's WIC community garden first of its kind in Kansas

Post date: May 15, 2013 10:34 PM
Submitted by natasha on May 15, 2013 10:34 PM

By Mike Sherry, HCF guest blogger and KHI News Service journalist

We all know that low-income families often don’t have access to healthy foods. We also know that poverty exists in suburbia.

Those facts led some Johnson County officials to, uh, plow new ground in Olathe.

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Substance abuse programs funded by liquor taxes

Post date: May 8, 2013 2:46 PM
Submitted by natasha on May 8, 2013 2:46 PM

By Mike Sherry, HCF guest blogger and KHI News Service journalist

Officials in Johnson County are about to kick off a process that distributes more than a million dollars each year to fight substance abuse within the county’s schools and communities.

And, the funding comes courtesy of liquor sales.

Since the late 1970s, Kansas has imposed a 10 percent tax on alcoholic drinks sold by clubs, caterers and drinking establishments.

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