KDADS Seeks Remedies to Crisis at Osawatomie State Hospital

By Bryan Thompson

Published May 22, 2015 at 9:00 AM CDT

(Image credit: Phil Cauthon for the KHI News Service)

The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services is beginning a new effort to restrict the number of patients admitted to the state mental hospital at Osawatomie. More from the Heartland Health Monitor’s Bryan Thompson.

Heartland Health Monitor is a reporting collaboration among KCUR, KHI News Service, KCPT, and Kansas Public Radio, focused mostly on health and health policy issues.

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Bryan Thompson has been KPR's Health Reporter since 2000. He's a lifelong Kansan, and a graduate of Wichita State University. He's been involved in radio news longer than he'd care to admit, serving as news director at stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.

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