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SEKMHC trustees suspend Fawson following state legislative appearance

The embattled head of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center based in Iola was suspended from his position on Monday...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
27Jan 2026

Kansas House committee grills SEKMHC head on salaries, operations of Medicaid-funded expanded care model

SEKMHC Executive Director Nathan Fawson testifies at the Kansas House Health and Human Services Committee hearing Tuesday./Kansas House Youtube capture...
By Dane Hicks
5 min
21Jan 2026

Medicaid-boosted salaries put SEKMHC execs in top 1% of earners in Kansas, USA

Salaries paid to executives at the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center pushed those top leaders into the celebrated “1 percent”...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
08Dec 2025

Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center nabs more Medicaid dollars, boosts exec’s pay to nearly $900,000

The executive salaries at the Iola-based Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center which prompted the organization’s virtual defunding by the six...
By Dane Hicks
5 min
27Nov 2025

SEKMHC board members still mum about salaries they approved that rile commissioners, public

Members of the board of directors for the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center are remaining mum about the ongoing salary...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
27Apr 2025

Lee bans reporter from SEKMHC counties meeting, but salaries mechanics remain unchanged

A meeting of county commissioners at the Allen County Courthouse Thursday to discuss what some are calling exorbitantly high salaries...
By Dane Hicks
8 min
22Apr 2025

$600,000+ salary for CEO makes SEK commissioners question tax subsidies for Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

HUMBOLDT – The salary figures for directors of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center that have riled county commissioners in...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
28Mar 2025