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SLSCO contract with Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Date Updated: February 28, 2022
Date Added: February 25, 2022
MO
Highlighted Documents: SLSCO Contract Contract Amendment 1 Contract Amendment 2 Contract Amendment 3 Contract Amendment 4
Principal Subject: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
A copy of the contract between SLSCO and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and subsequent contract amendments for temporary hospital staffing and monoclonal antibody treatment sites.
Date Range: Aug. 16 to Nov. 30, 2021
Format Details: .pdf (5 separate files, 64 pages)
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services emails regarding SLSCO
Date Updated: February 28, 2022
Date Added: February 25, 2022
MO
Highlighted Documents: No-shows at Freeman Health SLSCO pitches services
Principal Subject: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Emails obtained through records request to the Department of Health and Senior Services regarding SLSCO's services.
Date Range: July 15 to Aug. 30, 2021
Format Details: .pdf (2 separate files, 3 pages)
Missouri Governor's Office emails regarding SLSCO's work
Date Updated: February 28, 2022
Date Added: February 25, 2022
MO
Highlighted Documents: Low staff uptake Hospital complaints DMH concerns Need for SLSCO's services SLSCO past work
Principal Subject: Missouri Governor's Office
Emails obtained through a record request to the Missouri Governor's Office regarding SLSCO's services.
Date Range: Aug. 7 to Sept. 14, 2021
Format Details: .pdf (5 separate files, 8 pages)
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services delta mask mandate study
Date Updated: December 1, 2021
Date Added: December 1, 2021
MO
Highlighted Documents: DHSS masked versus unmasked case rate study results DHSS masked versus unmasked death rate study results
Principal Subject: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
On Nov. 1, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson's office requested the state's Department of Health and Senior Services for data showing the effectiveness of mask mandates on COVID-19 case and death rates during the summer and fall 2021 delta variant surge. Two days later, the health department responded with two plot graphs showing the difference in masked jurisdictions (St. Louis and St. Louis County, Kansas City and Jackson County) and the rest of the state, which mostly do not have mask policies.
Date Range: November 1 to November 3, 2021
Format Details: .pdf (2 separate files, 4 pages) and .png (attached screenshots of study results)
Missouri and Springfield-Greene County COVID-19 surge response emails and internal memos
Date Updated: October 28, 2021
Date Added: October 28, 2021
Greene County, MO
Principal Subject: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Springfield-Greene County Health Department
The files include thousands of emails and underlying attachments, including data and internal meeting minutes and memos, from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Springfield-Greene County Health Department regarding the summertime surge of COVID-19 and Delta variant cases in southwest Missouri
Date Range: July 4 to August 19, 2021
Format Details: zipped file (1.18 GB) of a combined .pdf file (4,043 pages, 1.23 GB, duplicative material) and individual .msg files (118 files)
Missouri State Emergency Management Agency COVID-19 resource requests
Date Updated: October 27, 2021
Date Added: October 27, 2021
Greene County, MO
Highlighted Documents: Springfield-Greene County resource requests
Principal Subject: Missouri State Emergency Management Agency
Five resource requests, including one modified request, filed by the Springfield-Greene County Health Department, in coordination with Mercy and CoxHealth hospitals, for ambulance strike teams, additional staffing and an alternate care site, or COVID-19 overflow hospital, to the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency.
Date Range: July 14 to 19, 2021
Format Details: .pdf (8 pages, 1.9 MB)
Springfield-Greene County COVID-19 capacity hospital transport logs
Date Updated: October 27, 2021
Date Added: October 27, 2021
Greene County, MO
Highlighted Documents: Springfield-Greene County Transport Tracking Log Springfield-Greene County Daily Transport Log Details
Principal Subject: Missouri State Emergency Management Agency and the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management
Springfield-Greene County hospital transport logs to other facilities include data, in spreadsheet form, from the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency and daily hospital log details, include some limited patient information, from the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management.
Date Range: July 23 to August 4, 2021
Format Details: .xlsx spreadsheet (tabs separated by 13 days, 46 KB)
Missouri State Emergency Management Agency COVID-19 resource request meeting minutes
Date Updated: October 27, 2021
Date Added: October 27, 2021
Greene County, MO
Highlighted Documents: July 22 Springfield/Greene County resource request meeting minutes July 29 Springfield/Greene County resource request meeting minutes
Principal Subject: Missouri State Emergency Management Agency
Meeting minutes from two meetings on July 22 and July 29, 2021, convened by the Missouri Emergency Management Agency, regarding resource requests, including for a COVID-19 overflow hospital, by Springfield/Greene County officials.
Date Range: July 22 and July 29, 2021
Format Details: .docx Word documents (7 pages, 37 KB total)
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Draft Situation Report, July 26-30, 2021
Date Updated: October 27, 2021
Date Added: October 27, 2021
MO
Highlighted Documents: Draft Situation Report, July 26-30, 2021
Principal Subject: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
The draft situation report authored by Mark Buxton, the rapid response team coordinator for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, summarizes health and emergency response activities in Missouri during the week of July 26 to 31, 2021, and includes details about the ultimately withdrawn resource requests for a COVID-19 overflow hospital by Springfield/Greene County officials.
Date Range: July 31, 2021
Format Details: .docx Word document (4 pages, 25 KB)
Webster County Health Department COVID-19 delta variant emails
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
Webster, MO
Principal Subject: Scott Allen, Webster County Health Administrator
This material includes the Webster Health Department's internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 2 to July 9
Format Details: Zip, pdf, eml (46.6 MB)
St. Joseph City Health Department COVID-19 delta variant emails and response
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
St. Joseph, MO
Principal Subject: Debra Bradley, St. Joseph Health Director
This material includes the St. Joseph Health Department's internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 2 to July 7 2021
Format Details: .pst (30.8MB)
Livingston County Health Department COVID-19 delta variant emails
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
Livingston, MO
Principal Subject: Sherry Weldon, Livingston Health Center Administrator
This material includes the Livingston Health Center internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 21 to June 25
Format Details: pdf (16 pages, 465 KB)
Joplin County Health Department COVID-19 variant emails and response
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
Joplin City, MO
Principal Subject: Ryan Talken, City of Joplin Health Department Director
This material includes the Joplic City Health Department internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 2 to June 23 2021
Format Details: pdf ( 163 pages, 24.1 MB, duplicative material)
Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services COVID-19 Delta variant response and internal emails
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 11, 2021
Columbia/Boone County, MO
Principal Subject: Stephanie Browning, director of Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services
This material includes the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 1 to June 30, 2021
Format Details: .pdf with embedded attachments (1,799 pages, 56.3 MB, duplicative material)
Laclede County Health Department COVID-19 Delta Variant Emails and Response
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
Laclede County, MO
Principal Subject: Laclede County Health Administrator Charla Baker
This material includes the Laclede County Health Department internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 4 to June 29, 2021
Format Details: .pdf (26 pages, 8.81 MB)
Jefferson County Health Department COVID-19 delta variant internal emails and response
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
Jefferson, MO
Principal Subject: Kelly Volmar, Jefferson County Health Department Director
This material includes the Jefferson County Health Department internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 7 to June 29 2021
Format Details: pdf (206 pages, 4.9MB, duplicative material)
Andrew County Health Department COVID-19 Delta Variant Internal Emails and Response
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
Andrew, MO
Principal Subject: Andrew Hoffman, Andrew County Health Department Director
This material includes the Andrew County Health Department internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 2 to July 7
Format Details: pdf, (240 pages, 19.5 MB, duplicative material)
Taney County Health Department COVID-19 Delta variant internal emails and response
Date Updated: July 12, 2021
Date Added: July 12, 2021
Taney County, MO
Principal Subject: Lisa Marshall, director of the Taney County Health Department
This material includes the Taney County Health Department internal emails, memos and contact tracing notes related to COVID-19 variants, including the Delta or India-originated strain of the virus.
Date Range: June 1 to July 1, 2021
Format Details: .pdf (440 pages, 120. 7 MB, duplicative material)
Missouri CDC Data Use Agreement
Date Updated: March 16, 2021
Date Added: March 16, 2021
MO
Principal Subject: State of Missouri, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
A copy of Missouri's Data Use Agreement for Covid-19 vaccine information with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Date Range: October 23, 2020
Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations COVID-19 Workplace Complaints
Date Updated: February 18, 2021
Date Added: February 18, 2021
MO
Principal Subject: Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations COVID-19 Workplace Complaints
These documents include Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations COVID-19 Workplace Complaints.
Date Range: March 1 to September 1, 2020
Format Details: .pdf (1.8MB, 39 pages)
St. Joseph Health Department COVID-19 emails and response
Date Updated: November 11, 2020
Date Added: November 11, 2020
Buchanan County, MO
Principal Subject: St. Joseph Health Department Debra Bradley
This material includes email correspondence, and all underlying documentation contained therein, between August 1 to November 10 2020, sent to, from or copied to St. Joseph Health Department Debra Bradley regarding local response to COVID-19.
Date Range: August 1 to November 10, 2020
Format Details: .pdf (98MB, 516 pages)
Jackson County Health Department COVID-19 emails and response
Date Updated: September 2, 2020
Date Added: September 1, 2020
Jackson County, MO
Principal Subject: Jackson County Health Director Bridgette Shaffer
This material includes emails sent to, from or copied to Bridgette Shaffer, Jackson County Health Department Director, regarding the local Covid-19 response, including community spread and school safety operations for Jackson County, Missouri.
Date Range: July 1 to July 17, 2020
Format Details: .pdf (1,226 pages)
West Nodaway School District, Missouri, COVID-19 emails and response
Date Updated: August 24, 2020
Date Added: August 21, 2020
Nodaway County, MO
Highlighted Documents: St. Louis Area Superintendents Return to School Work Group Suggested Practices
Principal Subject: Mitch Barnes, superintendent, West Nodaway R-I School District
This material includes emails sent to, from or copied to Mitch Barnes, superintendent of the West Nodaway R-I School District, regarding Covid-19 response and reopening plans.
Date Range: July 1 to August 11, 2020
Format Details: .pdf (216 pages)
St. Joseph Health Department COVID-19 emails and response
Date Updated: July 12, 2020
Date Added: June 19, 2020
St. Joseph, MO
Principal Subject: City of St. Joseph Health Director Debra Bradley
These documents include emails sent from, to or copied to St. Joseph Health Director Debra Bradley regarding local response to COVID-19.
Date Range: March 12 to May 13, 2020
Format Details: .pdf without attachments (8 MB)
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