NEKSHCC donates equipment to CHCS
August 17, 2022
Categories: News
The Northeast Kansas Healthcare Coalition, or NEKSHCC, recently donated three pieces of equipment to Community HealthCare System. The equipment was worth more than $1,000 and included one each of the following:
Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3M Littmann CORE Stethoscope ChoiceMMed Oxywatch Fingertip Pulse OximeterThe stethoscope is a specialized instrument with features such as sound amplification, noise cancellation, and connection to software that helps detect...
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...
NE KS Healthcare Coalition mini-grants support emergency preparedness
June 23, 2020
Categories: News
The Northeast Kansas Healthcare Coalition is helping Community HealthCare System boost emergency preparedness by providing $7,060 in mini-grants. The funds purchased five 800-MHz radios for systemwide use and will expand the Holton Family Health Center generated electrical system.
Adding 800-MHz radios, which have statewide reach, across all CHCS campuses strengthens healthcare and medical response coordination in an emergency. CHCS previously conducted a hazard vulnerability...
Northeast Kansas Healthcare Coalition helps organizations prepare and respond to emergencies
May 15, 2020
Categories: Community health news, News
Healthcare organizations have learned many grim lessons from both natural and human-made disasters in the last two decades. 9/11, an Ebola outbreak, Hurricane Katrina, mass shootings, and more have raised awareness of the need to prepare for the worst. But preparation can’t happen in a vacuum, and no one organization can cover every possible set of circumstances.
Healthcare coalitions aim to help the many contributors to a region’s preparedness break down barriers and increase...
