Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Celia comes to the Kansas News Service after five years at the Topeka Capital-Journal. She brings in-depth experience covering schools and education policy in Kansas as well as news at the Statehouse. In the last year she has been diving into data reporting. At the Kansas News Service she will also be producing more radio, a medium she’s been yearning to return to since graduating from Columbia University with a master’s in journalism.
Celia also has a master’s degree in bilingualism studies from Stockholm University in Sweden. Before she landed in Kansas, Celia worked as a reporter for The American Lawyer in New York, translated Chinese law articles, and was a reporter and copy editor for the Taipei Times.
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Employers could use the information to compare what they shell out for health care to what others get billed for the same services at the same hospitals.
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Kansas pharmacies preparing for the massive effort to vaccinate people against COVID-19 are looking for more pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
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An obituary that Courtney Farr wrote for readers in his small hometown struck a nerve nationally. It was a message of mourning for his father, and a plea for people to respect medicine and science.
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Some premiums will drop, others will rise. So experts recommend taking the time to comparison shop, even if you like the health insurance you bought last year.
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During a recent outbreak at Centennial Homestead in rural central Kansas, the nursing home had to wait five days for COVID-19 test results from a lab hours away.
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Seventy-six rural Kansas counties don't have intensive care units. Yet finding hospitals in cities able to take in their patients is becoming increasingly difficult.
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Even if all Kansans immediately mask up and avoid crowded places, it will likely take weeks to ease the burden on hospitals packed with COVID-19 patients.
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The governor is hoping counties won't buck her call for masks this time, because tens of thousands of new cases are spreading exponentially and straining hospitals.
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Patients sliding downhill can lose precious hours while smaller hospitals place call after call to larger facilities looking for ICU openings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Far from waning, coronavirus has fed off of people’s impatience with social distancing. ICUs are filling up. Flu shots could help save beds for COVID-19 patients.