Community HealthCare System is a 16-bed critical access hospital and level 4 trauma center with 480 associates, serving four counties through its main hospital, six family practice clinics, outpatient specialty clinics, two long-term care facilities, an assisted living facility and a home health agency. The organization provides 24/7 obstetrical care including cesarean delivery coverage, an increasingly rare service in rural Kansas, and in 2024 was named a “Kansas Gold Medal Winner for Newborn Screening” by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and earned “Gold Level” status through the Kansas Perinatal Quality Collaborative’s fourth trimester Initiative, an honor achieved by only 22 hospitals statewide. In 2025, Community HealthCare System earned multiple American Heart Association “Get With The Guidelines” awards across rural heart failure, coronary artery disease, ST-elevation myocardial infarction and stroke categories. The organization has maintained SHARPS certification for over two decades, a national recognition for workplace safety and employee wellbeing. The behavioral health team, comprising a full-time psychiatrist, two full-time counselors and a mental health nurse practitioner, has trained more than 200 adults in adult and youth mental health first aid since 2019 and reached 255 students in four rural school districts through teen mental health first aid since 2023. Surgical services expanded to include orthopedic procedures in 2022, with volume growing from nine cases that year to 79 cases in 2025 while maintaining a strong safety record.
