Help kids thank healthcare providers
March 30, 2020
Categories: News
Our healthcare providers are working hard to keep everyone healthy. Doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, LPNs, CNAs, and others are prepared to care for COVID-19 patients. They have put in many extra hours in the last few weeks! You and your family can help thank them.
We've collected coloring pages that you can download, print, and color. We'd love to have them to hang up in our clinics, hospitals, and long-term care facilities for...
CHCS offers telemedicine appointments
March 26, 2020
Categories: News
We recognize that people may be reluctant to visit our clinics or hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak, and we appreciate efforts to follow advice on social distancing. Telemedicine provides a new option to Community HealthCare System patients. We began offering telemedicine appointments the week of March 30.
Here are a few things patients should know about telemedicine:
Access: Telemedicine offers a way for patients to have an office visit with their...
COVID-19: A Letter from CEO Todd Willert
March 20, 2020
Categories: News
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
-Winston Churchill
We are living through events on a scale never before seen in our lifetime. For many of us, 9/11 may be the most comparable moment. Although 9/11 attacked our sense of security and safety and exposed the vulnerability of our nation, COVID-19 assaults the very fiber of who we are: social creatures who depend on our relationships with others. Broadway is...
KDHE confirms COVID-19 case in Jackson County
March 19, 2020
Categories: News
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed that a resident of Jackson County has tested positive for COVID-19. This is the first case in Jackson County, and the person is in isolation according to a letter from Jackson County Health Officer Angela Reith.
Area healthcare facilities including Holton Community Hospital and Community HealthCare System are prepared to test and treat patients for COVID-19 but emphasize that members of the public should take prevention measures...
COVID-19 changes at CHCS
March 16, 2020
Categories: News
Community HealthCare System is working to protect our patients, communities, and associates from COVID-19 and has taken several actions to enhance our preparedness. The situation is changing rapidly, but we will continue to update this list as more adjustments become necessary.
In addition to keeping our providers, nurses, and clinic associates abreast of COVID-19 screening and testing procedures, we have done the following.
Update April 30: We will resume...
CHCS senior care facilities to suspend visitors effective immediately
March 13, 2020
Categories: News
Starting immediately, Community HealthCare Systems senior care facilities will not allow visitors in an effort to protect residents from COVID-19. Eastridge Skilled Nursing Facility, St. Marys Manor, and Redbud Assisted Living will be affected.
Anyone with questions can call the appropriate facility and ask for Lura Flentie, CHCS director of long-term care services.
Our priority is to protect residents. Older adults and people who have serious chronic medical conditions...
Revised hospital visitor guidelines in response to COVID-19
March 13, 2020
Categories: News
NOTE: Post updated with new information 3.19.20
As part of our preparedness efforts for COVID-19, Community HealthCare System has revised visitor guidelines for hospitals in Onaga and St. Marys.
No visitors will be allowed for hospital patients except in the following extenuating circumstances:
The visitor is a guardian for a pediatric patient The patient is on comfort end-of-life care The patient is critical and needs someone there to make...
COVID-19 preparedness at CHCS
March 11, 2020
Categories: Community health news, News
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported this week that a patient with novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has surfaced in Kansas, and we want to share what we are doing to prepare in case we see COVID-19 cases. We also want to make sure that patients know what to do if they suspect they may have COVID-19 and know where to find the best information.
Our associates are working diligently to ensure that Community HealthCare System is prepared should the contagious...
CHCS offers colonoscopy – and kindness
March 9, 2020
Categories: Patient story
Elizabeth Littrell came to Community HealthCare System for a colonoscopy in May 2018. “I firmly believe that I wouldn’t be alive right now if I hadn’t gotten my colonoscopy,” she said.
Littrell had no cancer symptoms at the time, but her colonoscopy found a tumor that grew quickly. She went through treatment and surgery, and today she is fully recovered.
More than 145,000 Americans each year will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer,...
Nuclear medicine brings advanced diagnostics to CHCS
March 6, 2020
Categories: News
Community HealthCare System physicians have a new tool to diagnose and treat patients. Nuclear medicine is a diagnostic imaging procedure that can detect issues with internal organs that other types of scans can’t see. While CT or MRI tests only show the radiologist images, nuclear medicine provides information about functioning of organs like gall bladders, thyroids and hearts.
The new, in-house service will replace a mobile imaging truck that brought nuclear medicine...
