Why screeners and masks are so important in our facilities
November 19, 2020
Categories: News
Everyone who comes to a CHCS hospital or clinic for an appointment has been met by a screener since late March. In Onaga, St. Marys, and Holton, we have dedicated screening staff members who meet patients and support persons at the door. At other clinics, registration staff provide screening, which involves taking temperatures and asking questions about symptoms and travel of those who enter and giving everyone a procedure mask to wear (with exceptions for young children or individuals who are...
CHCS resumes visitor restrictions, maintains other COVID-19 precautions
November 11, 2020
COVID-19 cases continue to rise in our service area, so Community HealthCare System is re-instituting visitor restrictions and maintaining other COVID-19 precautions.
Starting at 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 12, hospitalized patients, including those delivering babies at the Birth Center, will be allowed one designated visitor. Designated visitors will be issued a purple bracelet to indicate their status during the length of their loved one’s...
Eastridge residents test positive for COVID-19
November 10, 2020
Categories: News
UPDATES:
November 18: All patients are being closely monitored, and appropriate actions are taken as need arises. CHCS invited KDHE to visit Eastridge to ensure that we are doing all we can to protect residents and staff. That visit took place on November 16. We will continue to provide updates as available. As of November 16, 22 residents have tested positive for COVID-19. Two have been hospitalized. All are...
Veterans Day: CHCS Veteran Jeremy Brandt reflects on service
November 10, 2020
Categories: General, News, Provider story
Jeremy Brandt is a physician assistant and licensed X-ray technologist. He serves as lead provider in the Frankfort Clinic as well as co-clinical advisor for the Northeast Kansas Healthcare Coalition.
He is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Kansas Air National Guard 190th Air Refueling Wing, Forbes Field, Topeka, Kansas. He continues to serve after more than 20 years in the Armed Forces, and he deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 with the 2-130...
CHCS recognized for improving care for opioid-exposed infants and families
November 9, 2020
Categories: News
Community HealthCare System has been awarded a Center of Excellence in Education and Training for Infants and Families Affected by Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome by Vermont Oxford Network, or VON.
The award recognizes multidisciplinary care teams for completing training to care for babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS. Neonatal abstinence syndrome is drug withdrawal syndrome experienced by infants exposed to opioids while in utero. Infants born with NAS are more likely...
Protect the people and things you care about
November 6, 2020
Categories: Community health news, News
The following is a joint letter to the editor submitted to area newspapers for publication the week of November 9. The letter is signed by three area hospital CEOs, including Todd Willert from Community HealthCare System.
Dear citizens of northeast Kansas,
Across the state, we are hearing calls of distress from our colleagues in healthcare. Hospital beds and intensive care units are filling to capacity. ER doctors and nurses are struggling to keep up...
CHCS urges area residents to take precautions, prevent the spread of COVID-19
October 29, 2020
Categories: Community health news, News
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment tracks 14-day COVID-19 positivity rates in every county, and each county is given a rating of green, yellow, or red.1 The most recent update from KDHE indicates that both Nemaha and Jackson counties are in the red. Pottawatomie and Marshall counties are yellow along with Wabaunsee, Shawnee, and Geary. Riley County and Douglas County are green. To find the most current information, visit the KDHE COVID-19 website and select Nursing Home Metrics.
Besides...
CHCS recognized by Kansas Newborn Screening Program
October 29, 2020
Categories: News
When babies are born, time is of the essence to screen for problems that could cause developmental disability or severe illness.
The Kansas Newborn Screening Program, a collaboration between public health, hospitals, providers, and the parents of newborns, has provided essential screenings at no cost to families since 1965. Community HealthCare System, or CHCS, is among the Kansas hospitals being recognized for meeting or exceeding screening goals.
Required screenings include...
Procedure masks required starting October 26
October 26, 2020
Categories: News
Community HealthCare System, or CHCS, remains committed to providing high-quality, compassionate, and safe patient care while ensuring the safety of our workforce. Given the widespread community transmission of COVID-19, CHCS is adjusting mask requirements for all patients and visitors starting Monday, October 26.
Masks have been required in all facilities for several months, but as an additional protective measure, CHCS clinics and hospitals...
CHCS nurse shares COVID-19 experience
October 21, 2020
Categories: News, Patient story
Karen Elliott is an infection control nurse. She knows how to prevent disease. She was an advocate for hand hygiene before COVID-19 was in the news. She helps others learn how to take precautions. So she’ll never catch COVID-19, right?
Wrong.
Elliott still doesn’t know how she contracted the virus, but she started have symptoms on October 1. After experiencing gradually worsening symptoms at home (cough, headache, body aches, fever, diarrhea, nausea, loss of taste,...
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