Here we go again
August 6, 2021
Categories: News
By Todd Willert, CEO
Remember the end of May this year? Everyone was feeling pretty good. Hopeful anticipation was in the air. We had made it to the end of the school year with our children learning in person, restaurants and businesses were opening fully, restrictions were lifting, some were looking to a future when we could get rid of masks, and CHCS had just successfully celebrated our COVID-ized associate recognition. And the numbers looked good!
Systemwide,...
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...
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...
