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What is Cardiac Rehab?

Cardiac rehab is a customized outpatient program of exercise and education.

The program is designed to help you improve your health and recover from heart attack, heart surgeries and procedures, improve symptoms and manage stable angina, heart failure, and peripheral artery disease.

The goals of cardiac rehabilitation include establishing a plan to help you regain strength, prevent your condition from worsening, reduce your...

Kick off fall with a healthy start at Onaga Community Hospital Saturday, October 5.  Join Community HealthCare System (CHCS) at their annual Health Fair and Community Baby Shower.  Low-cost labs, vaccines, information for new parents and many more activities are planned.

Low-cost labs will be offered from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Individuals can receive a complete blood count, chemistry panel, thyroid screen, cholesterol panel, and hemoglobin A1c for diabetes screening for $30. A...

Patient, resident and associate health and safety continues to be a top priority for Community HealthCare System (CHCS) and for the 22nd straight year, CHCS has been recertified through a unique program from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 

The On-site Consultation Program's Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) recognizes employers who operate an exemplary safety and health management approach. Since 2002, CHCS has been recognized as the...

Community HealthCare System is pleased to announce that Dr. Ben Harstine will join its medical staff this fall.

Dr. Harstine earned his bachelor of science in Public Health Nutrition from Kansas State University and attended medical school at the University of Kansas Medical Center.  He completed his family medicine residency and family medicine obstetrics fellowship at Waco Family Medicine in Waco, Texas.  He recently received both his family medicine and family medicine obstetrics...

Community HealthCare System is pleased to announce that Dr. Collin Connor will join its medical staff in September.

Dr. Connor graduated from Emporia State University (ESU) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry.  He attended medical school at the University of Kansas Medical Center.  He completed his family medicine residency at Ascension Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas.

Dr. Connor did not always know he wanted to be a physician. It wasn’t until after...

Community HealthCare System (CHCS) has announced that Karl Haake, MD, a board-certified pain management physician specializing in back, neck, and joint pain as well as migraine relief, is joining the CHCS specialty provider team. With nearly 15 years of experience in pain management, Dr. Haake brings expertise that enables CHCS to offer  comprehensive pain management services to patients in northeast Kansas.

“We are excited to have Dr. Haake join our team. Meeting our communities’...

It's National Nurses Week and we are celebrating our wonderful nurses who extend compassionate care daily to our patients, our friends, our neighbors.

What better tribute than to honor them with this poem:

“Footprints of Compassion” author unknown

In corridors, both long and bright,

A journey unfolds, day and night.

Nurses walk, leaving behind,

Footprints of a special kind.

Steps of hope, strides...

Did you know that the language we use to talk about mental health may contribute to the stigma, prejudice and discrimination of individuals who have been diagnosed with a mental health condition?  We are all unique individuals and want to be treated as such.  There is much more to each person than their mental health condition and, many times, in our field of work, we see patients at their worst.  Person-first language refers to speaking and writing in a way that acknowledges the...

Community HealthCare System (CHCS) was recently awarded a $75,000 grant from the Sunflower Foundation to support implementation of an integrated care delivery model to increase access to behavioral health services.  CHCS will receive the funds over the next nine months as grant milestones are met.

“We are grateful to receive these funds from the Sunflower Foundation,” said Todd Willert, CHCS Chief Executive Officer.  “These funds will help support our continued...

Even though diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been diagnosed for many years, pulmonary rehab has only been around since the late 1990’s.  Those suffering from COPD used to be told to avoid physical activity.  But, in 1952 Columbia University staff member Alvan Barach first noted the importance of continued exercise for those with COPD.  Later Thomas Petty would develop the first pulmonary rehabilitation outpatient program. Now today, it is widely...