Location(s): Onaga
When Family Means Everything, We Deliver.
Having a baby is an amazing, life-changing event. Even before your arrival on the big day, our Birth Center team will work closely with you, your physician, and your family to provide the personalized, compassionate, one-on-one care and attention you deserve – all in a warm, supportive, family-oriented environment that meets your and your baby’s unique needs. We support your entire journey into parenthood and are always here to resolve any fears or anxiety you may have about giving birth and being a parent.
CHCS offers you a childbirth experience like no other, and we invite you to schedule a tour to see our Birth Center amenities for yourself. When it comes to expertise in obstetric, postpartum, and neonatal care, Community HealthCare System provides high-quality care, close to home.
Our Birth Center features:
An experienced labor and delivery team
24-hour obstetric anesthesia for pain management
An emergency cesarean childbirth team
A neonatal specialist referral relationship
Spacious, all-private rooms
Personalized and experienced postpartum nursing care
Queen size, adjustable massage bed for postpartum comfort
A safe, comfortable environment
A locked unit with an infant security system
Expert Labor & Delivery Care Close to Home – With a Personal Touch
The CHCS Birth Center team is made up of physicians and clinical staff who live and work here in our local Northeast Kansas communities. You can get to know and trust your CHCS clinical team members who make up your Birth Center support network – before, during and after the due date.
The goal of our family-centered Birth Center is to obtain the best possible healthy outcome for all members of the family, both individually and holistically.
Meet Dr. Kendra Reith, MD
As a family medicine physician, proud mom, and lifelong Kansan, Dr. Reith was thrilled to join our local community and the CHCS Birth Center family in early 2022. With her special interest in women's health and delivering healthy babies -- and her dedication to your growing family's health -- Dr. Reith is a great addition to your prenatal and Birth Center care team.
Learn more about Dr. Reith or call 785-889-4272 to make an appointment today.
Step Inside Our Warm, Welcoming Birth Center
At CHCS, we offer you choices so you can tailor your family-centered birth experience to reflect what you envision for your family’s birthing experience.
It begins with the unique design of our Birth Center and includes our innovative care model that ensures mothers and infants are cared for as one, by the same nurse, to facilitate teaching of skills and to promote family bonding. This model of care keeps baby with the mother longer and allows the father to have a more active role in the birthing process. And, since baby stays close to mother, mothers and babies will experience more successful breastfeeding, which provides for optimal nutrition and immune system support.
Our nurses are trained to promote and provide an expanded menu of options for labor and pain management and new infant care, all in keeping with our respect for the role of the mother.
If you would like a tour of the CHCS Birth Center, information on birthing classes, or if you have any questions or concerns, please contact Katie Kufahl, RN at 785-889-5122.
Personalized, Comprehensive Breastfeeding Support
The benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants are well known. As a High 5 for Mom & Baby Premier hospital, we embrace best practices to improve breastfeeding success.
In addition to personalized, specialized lactation support and guidance, we:
Offer skin-to-skin contact for mothers and newborns right after birth
Feed only breastmilk to newborn infants unless medically necessary
Allow mothers and babies to stay together 24 hours a day
Do not offer pacifiers or artificial nipples to breastfeeding infants
Provide extensive breastfeeding resources to guide and educate our new moms and babies
Read more about our commitment to breastfeeding success.
Special Services for Mothers
Keeping mothers and babies at the center of what we do, we also offer these special services:
Lactation services with an Internationally board-certified Lactation Consultant on staff
Complimentary labor and delivery unit tour
Physician referrals
Keepsake birth certificate
Private rooms
Childbirth, breastfeeding, and infant care classes four times per year
Complimentary steak dinner for couples to celebrate baby’s birth
If you would like a tour or information on birthing classes, or if you have any questions or concerns, please call us at the number below.
David Allen, MD
Medical Staff
Location: Holton
Position: Physician
Medical Services: Diabetic Care, Youth Services, Men's Health, Women's Health, Emergency Department, Birth Center, Medical & Surgical Care, Family Medicine, Senior Care
David Allen, MD
Dr. David Allen holds degrees from Kansas State University and the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita. His specialties are family medicine and obstetrics, including C-sections, GI procedures (upper and lower endoscopy), and pediatric services.
Marcus Weiser, DO
Medical Staff
Location: Onaga
Position: Physician
Medical Services: Birth Center, Diabetic Care, Emergency Department, Medical & Surgical Care, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youth Services, Family Medicine, Senior Care
Marcus Weiser, DO
Dr. Marcus Weiser graduated from Bethany College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and from medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. He completed his residency at Via Christi (St. Joseph and St. Francis) in Wichita and served as chief resident. Dr. Weiser is board-certified in family medicine. He is also trained to do obstetrics and performs EGDs (esophagogastroduodenoscopy), colonoscopies, and C-sections. He particularly enjoys teaching both third- and fourth-year medical students as a clinical assistant professor in the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Family Medicine and as a clerkship preceptor for the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Dr. Weiser enjoys caring for others in a variety of settings. “I love family medicine, and it is a privilege to serve others as a family medicine physician. I find the variety that rural family medicine offers both challenging and rewarding,” he says. Dr. Weiser was born and raised in northwest Kansas and lives in Onaga with his wife and five children. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, helping coach his kids’ sports teams, and, occasionally, golfing.
Nancy J. Zidek, MD
Medical Staff
Locations: Frankfort, Onaga, Holton
Position: Physician
Medical Services: Birth Center, Diabetic Care, Emergency Department, Family Medicine, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youth Services, Senior Care
Nancy J. Zidek, MD
Dr. Nancy Zidek graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor of arts in microbiology and holds a degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Wesley Family Practice in Wichita, Kansas. She is particularly interested in women’s health and performs colposcopies and places birth control implants and intrauterine devices, or IUDs. Dr. Zidek is a lifelong Kansas resident and a second-generation doctor. Her father practiced for more than 40 years in Marysville, Kansas, and she knew from a young age that she wanted to join the same profession. She enjoys “being part of the family” and watching her young patients grow and mature into adults. Dr. Zidek is married and has two almost-grown kids. Her daughter, Bethany is married. She is a doctor and is in her Family Medicine Residency at Ascension Via Christi in Wichita, KS. Elijah is working in Kansas City. Dr. Zidek and her husband, Paul, enjoy being empty-nesters and are trying to travel more. They have two “spoiled mutts” and enjoy feeding hummingbirds in the summer, when they have up to 10 “hummers” who visit their feeders.
Kendra Reith, MD
Medical Staff
Locations: Centralia, Corning, Onaga
Position: Physician
Medical Services: Birth Center, Diabetic Care, Emergency Department, Family Medicine, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youth Services, Senior Care
Kendra Reith, MD
Dr. Kendra Reith graduated from Kansas State University and the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Smoky Hill Family Medicine in Salina, where she gained extensive hands-on experience in family practice along with obstetrical care. She also has completed training for Botox injections for treatment of chronic migraines and offers this service in the Onaga clinic. Dr. Reith is a native of Belleville, Kansas. She and her husband, Brent, live in Onaga with their young son. Outside of work, Dr. Reith enjoys spending time with family, traveling, shopping, arranging flowers, baking, and spending time with the family pets (a dog and two cats).
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