Community HomeHealth Receives 2024 HHCAHPS Honors Status For Exceptional Patient Care
February 6, 2025
Community Healthcare System’s HomeHealth agency is proud to announce it was named a 2024 HHCAHPS Honor recipient by MatrixCare, a leading provider of CAHPS surveys, advanced analytics and other services for home health agencies. This prestigious program recognizes agencies that excel in delivering positive patient experiences and high-quality care as measured by the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) satisfaction scores.
To receive...
CHCS installs EKG in Onaga thanks to grant funding
January 23, 2025
Community HealthCare System will be adding an Electrocardiogram, or EKG, at its Onaga Outpatient Specialty Clinic thanks to grant funding from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, ensuring quick, accurate, and non-invasive diagnostics is critical. One essential piece of equipment that fulfills these needs is the EKG. An EKG records the electrical activity of the heart, providing healthcare professionals with valuable...
CHCS’s Bomberger Receives Award
December 5, 2024
Michael Bomberger, Director of Business Development and Special Projects at CHCS, was recently awarded the Excellence in Innovation and Leadership Award from the Kansas Healthcare Coalitions. Bomberger accepted the inaugural award at the Coalition’s Preparedness Summit held last month in Wichita, Kansas.
“I am grateful to the Kansas Healthcare Coalitions for their inaugural Excellence in Innovation and Leadership Award! It was an honor to receive this prestigious...
What is Cardiac Rehabilitation?
September 12, 2024
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...
Annual Fall Health Fair and Community Baby Shower to be held October 5
August 26, 2024
Categories: Community health news, Events, General, News
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...
Community HealthCare System certified by OSHA safety program
August 22, 2024
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 Welcomes Dr. Ben Harstine
July 23, 2024
Categories: General, News, Provider story
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 Welcomes Dr. Collin Connor
July 23, 2024
Categories: General, News, Provider story
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 Welcomes Dr. Karl Haake, Interventional Pain Management Specialist
May 28, 2024
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’...
A Tribute to Our Nurses
May 9, 2024
Categories: General
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...
