CHCS honors Birth Center nurses with DAISY Award
March 25, 2022
Categories: News
Community HealthCare System, or CHCS, has recognized Katie Kufahl, RN, and her Birth Center nursing team with the winter 2022 DAISY Award for extraordinary nursing. Birth Center nurses were nominated for their kindness and professionalism as they cared for a new mom who had a C-section and needed to stay in the hospital for a few days to recover.
Ashley Bean, Lindsay Koch, and Jolene Wessel, Birth Center RNs, were nominated by James Fitzhenry. According to the nomination...
What is pulmonary rehab?
March 15, 2022
Categories: General
By Meranda Schmitz, RN, Cardiopulmonary Rehab
At the beginning of the year, CHCS announced that we now offer pulmonary rehabilitation services. You may be wondering what we do in this program to help patients. The quick answer is exercise and education, but this doesn’t capture everything.
Pulmonary rehab is a program designed for people with chronic lung disease. This includes, but is not limited to, COPD, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis,...
Physical therapy helps Bob Avery push for progress
March 14, 2022
Categories: Patient story
If you visit the Onaga Rehabilitation and Fitness Center on weekdays during the lunch hour, you’re likely to see Bob Avery hard at work on the weight machines. He travels to the Fitness Center several times a week from his home near Olsburg to do strengthening exercises, and he sees a physical therapist once a week. He’s come a long way since a harrowing accident nearly five years ago left him with a partial spinal cord injury.
Avery, a lifelong rancher who...
CHCS now offers 3D mammography
March 8, 2022
Categories: News
CHCS has installed FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation’s ASPIRE Cristalle digital mammography solution at Onaga Community Hospital.
The ASPIRE Cristalle is an advanced mammography system that features Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), a state-of-the-art form of breast imaging that uses a low dose x-ray system to create three-dimensional images. Onaga Community Hospital radiologists can use 3D imaging to better visualize lesions that can be obscured in breast tissue,...
Schedule a life-saving cancer screening
March 2, 2022
Categories: Community health news, News
The consequences of COVID-19 have been many and varied, but one that may not be obvious could be a wave of cancer diagnoses. Many patients delayed important cancer screenings during the last two years, and experts are worried that cancers have gone undetected as a result.
Researchers have found that colonoscopies, the best way to screen for colorectal cancer, dropped by nearly half in 2020 compared to 2019, and they worry that there’s still a backlog. March is...
'Part of the solution:' CHCS mentors nursing students
March 1, 2022
Categories: News
Healthcare staff shortages have made nationwide news as the COVID-19 pandemic has dragged on for nearly two years. Here in northeast Kansas, Community HealthCare System is doing all it can to help the next generation of nurses gain experience.
Several different schools send students to Onaga Community Hospital and Community HealthCare System clinics for clinical experience or observation, including Washburn University School of Nursing, Highland Community College Medical...
