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Dear Community Partners, August often is a month we see transitions and new beginnings. A new school year starts. Fall sports leagues begin their practices. The hot, humid summer temperatures begin the transition into fall with cooler nights. Gardeners see their summer gardens winding up, but can plant cool season vegetables to take them into…

Dear Community Partners, Demand for adult inpatient beds continues to outpace supply. Like most healthcare organizations in Kansas we are facing staffing challenges, which means we are unable to take all of the patients needing a transfer for hospital care. Because the COVID-19 surge is widespread across the Midwest, the situation is further exacerbated. From…

Dear Community Partners, The resistance of some to get a COVID-19 vaccine may at times be less about resistance and more about barriers. I recently learned of a situation in which a person “resisting” the vaccine was actually willing to get it but resisted because of language barriers she faced. The person believed she didn’t…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard (Scorecard: English | Spanish) COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 55 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated is 85%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater than 14 days since the last immunization.…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 55 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated is 85%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater than 14 days since the last immunization. From…

Dear Community Partners, Today marks a wonderful milestone for Stormont Vail Health and for 41 of our nurses. We are celebrating the completion of a nurse residency program by these new graduate nurses. This is a program that was developed through the work of an interdisciplinary team to help new nurses receive a thorough orientation…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard (English and Spanish) COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 54 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated is 83%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater than 14 days since the…

Dear Community Partners, We are facing a difficult and dire situation in the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important that we have a full understanding of what this means to us and the health care in our communities. Our hospital is full. At the start of today, all of our hospital’s adult inpatient rooms were filled…

Dear Community Partners, There are many hands working together to help keep our community healthy in the COVID-19 pandemic. One important team is at our Infusion Center in Topeka where we provide monoclonal antibody treatment to COVID-19 outpatients. This is a treatment given to patients who are at high risk for developing severe symptoms from…

Dear Community Partners, Changing our Emergency Department to diversion status – which means ambulances carrying patients are diverted to another hospital – is a difficult decision to make. However, it is one that has been made more often the past year. During diversions, our front door to the ED remains open and we continue to…

Dear Community Partners, Urgent care can feel more urgent in a pandemic. The COVID-19 virus – and especially its delta variant – is tricky, with disease symptoms that can vary widely. Plus, this is a novel virus that we are still learning about, but much remains unknown. Are these symptoms a cold or COVID? Is…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard (English and Spanish) COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 22 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated over the past 30 days is 64%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard (English and Spanish) COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 23 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated over the past 30 days is 82%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater…

Dear Community Partners, We are aware there are many connections between the food we eat and our health. That’s why it is so important that healthy foods are accessible and available across the community. Food insecurity is one of the areas our care team monitors with our patients, and if we find a patient doesn’t…

Dear Community Partners, Stormont Vail Health has many connections with Washburn University – through alumni, academic programs that educate future healthcare professionals and more – and our connection with Washburn will be even more visible this weekend. We are hosting our second “Walk with a Doc” from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday, starting from the…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard (English and Spanish) COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 14 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated for the past 30 days is 76%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater…

Dear Community Partners, All ideas do matter at Stormont Vail Health. Two years ago we started a new program at Stormont Vail called All Ideas Matter or “AIM.” The premise of this program was for everyone on the team to have the opportunity to submit ideas that could potentially improve our organization and our work.…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard (English and Spanish) COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 18 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated over the past 30 days is 79%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater…

Dear Community Partners, Next Tuesday, Nov. 2, we each have the opportunity to experience civic engagement at the polls. While the voter registration deadline for Kansas has passed, we still have the opportunity to vote. At Stormont Vail, we encourage this practice through support to our team and to our hospitalized patients. For our team,…

Dear Community Partners, Here are today’s updates: COVID-19 Scorecard (English and Spanish) COVID-19 Vaccines COVID-19 Scorecard Here’s a look at today’s COVID-19 scorecard: We have 17 inpatients who are COVID-19 positive. The percentage of hospital patients who are unvaccinated over the past 30 days is 79%. Vaccinated is defined as fully vaccinated individuals for greater…