Category: Overland Park

University of Kansas breaks ground on new Overland Park hospital

by Alex Smith, Heartland Health Monitor

The University of Kansas Hospital broke ground Wednesday morning on a new hospital in Overland Park.

The new $100 million building, set to open in 2018, will feature eight operating rooms and 18 patient rooms. It also will include room for 17 additional beds for future expansion.

The hospital’s services will include imaging, sports medicine, orthopedics, plastic surgery, ENT and cancer surgery.

The building will be connected to the existing Indian Creek surgical building at KU’s Indian Creek Campus on the southwest corner of 107th Street and Nall Avenue.

The surgical building formerly housed Heartland Surgical Special Hospital and was taken over by KU Hospital in 2012.

The new building will be KU’s only other inpatient hospital outside of its 780-bed hospital in Kansas City, Kan.

Pulse Design Group, based in Lenexa, is designing the building. Kansas City-based JE Dunn is the general contractor.

— Alex Smith is a reporter for KCUR.

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Injury crash reported on I-35

A driver was injured and taken to the hospital after a crash at 12:26 p.m. July 13 on southbound I-35, south of Cambridge Circle.

A Ford Fusion was southbound on I-35 and lost control, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

The Fusion left the roadway and went to the right, striking the barrier wall, the trooper’s report stated. The Fusion then spun around and struck the barrier wall a second time.

The driver of the Fusion, an 85-year-old man from Overland Park, Kan., was taken to a hospital with a possible injury, the report stated.

Kansas City, Mo., bank robber who threatened to ‘shoot up the place’ sentenced to more than eight years in prison

A bank robber who threated to “shoot up the place,” was sentenced Monday to 100 months in federal prison, acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.

Robert Robinson, 42, Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., to three counts of bank robbery. In his plea, Robinson admitted that on May 30, 2014, he robbed the Commerce Bank at 9501 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kan. At the counter he pulled out a blue file folder and opened it, revealing a note that read: “Put on top of this note all 20s, 50s 100s or I will start shooting up the place.”

He also admitted to two other bank robberies: One on May 22, 2014, at the Bank of America at 15811 Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park; and the other on May 30, 2014, at Commerce Bank at 3606 Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph, Mo.

Beall commended the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jabari Wamble for their work on the case.