About The NEKSHCC
The North East Kansas Healthcare Coalition includes the following twenty three Kansas counties:
Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffee, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Linn, Lyon, Marshall, Miami, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Washington
What we do
The Coalition develops the relationships, plans, and tools necessary for effective, coordinated regional responses to healthcare emergencies. Here’s how we work:
Before Disaster Strikes
We operate behind the scenes preparing and training healthcare providers in leading-edge emergency response (collaboration and coordination in a response) and recovery practices.
during an Emergency
We are the eyes and ears of how healthcare is doing. We coordinate information, policy and resources for the healthcare community in partnership with other emergency response agencies.
after a disaster
We learn from our front-line experiences, and develop and implement innovative, life-saving strategies. We advocate and support healthcare through the recovery process.
Planning
Working with regional healthcare organizations to make the best use of available resources by providing a shared planning, communications, and incident management infrastructure.
training & Exercises
Coordinating emergency preparedness training and exercises to create consistency in communication and response across the region and to ensure the continuity of operations.
Resource & Information Sharing
Developing strategies for regional information exchange, resource sharing, and critical infrastructure planning.
engagement
The Coalition works with healthcare organizations to establish coordinated systems to share information and resources when disaster strikes.
We at the Northeast Kansas Preparedness Healthcare Coalition choose to be open and clear about our organizational values. We want our current and prospective members, the communities in which we live and serve, and the governing officials with whom we interact to know of these values and to judge our merit as an organization by the strength and consistency with which our deeds match our words.
We at the Northeast Kansas Preparedness Healthcare Coalition choose to be open and clear about our organizational values. We want our current and prospective members, the communities in which we live and serve, and the governing officials with whom we interact to know of these values and to judge our merit as an organization by the strength and consistency with which our deeds match our words.
Who We Serve...The Whole Community
The Healthcare Coalition is not an entity providing services, but instead is an entity created so that those delivering health care in the region can most effectively collaborate to provide the best possible coordinated response to the WHOLE COMMUNITY.
The Healthcare Coalition is a group of healthcare organizations, public safety, and public health partners that join forces for the common cause of making their communities safer, healthier, and more resilient.
The Healthcare Coalition is a group of healthcare organizations, public safety, and public health partners that join forces for the common cause of making their communities safer, healthier, and more resilient.
Where We Do It
Northeast Kansas Healthcare Coalition Region: The geographic region served by the Northeast Kansas Preparedness Healthcare Coalition including all the following Kansas county jurisdictions:
Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffee, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Linn, Lyon, Marshall, Miami, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Washington.
Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffee, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Linn, Lyon, Marshall, Miami, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Washington.
Who We Are
Our efforts benefit the patients, providers, and partners of the healthcare delivery system in the Northeast Kansas Region. Coalition Members include all 17 providers and suppliers listed in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Emergency Preparedness Final Rule, Emergency Managers, Emergency Medical Services, and Public Health Departments.
With this breadth of participation, a focus should be given to the core of the Healthcare Coalition. The Federal Government has identified 4 core members of each Healthcare Coalition. These members are as follows:
The Northeast Kansas Healthcare Coalition recognizes these core four members as minimum disciplines which must maintain membership in our healthcare coalition in order to fulfill our own mission and goals.
With this breadth of participation, a focus should be given to the core of the Healthcare Coalition. The Federal Government has identified 4 core members of each Healthcare Coalition. These members are as follows:
- Hospitals (with a minimum of 2 acute care hospitals
- Local Public Health Departments
- Emergency Medical Services
- Emergency Management
The Northeast Kansas Healthcare Coalition recognizes these core four members as minimum disciplines which must maintain membership in our healthcare coalition in order to fulfill our own mission and goals.
How We Do It - Guiding Principles
North East Kansas Preparedness Healthcare Coalition Mission, Goals, and Tenets:
Our Mission is to progressively build a strong framework for a coordinated emergency management, to adapt and overcome preparedness challenges, throughout the Northeast Region.
We do this by (1) promoting strong relationships and partnerships, (2) facilitating communication for improved situational awareness, (3) identifying hazards and risks, (4) prioritizing and addressing gaps through multi-agency planning, training, exercising, and resource coordination and management.
Our Goal is to build and enhance partnerships that allow our healthcare community to make strategic unified decisions effectively.
Our Objective: Whether responding to an immediate surge of patients or a contagion, or mitigating the impacts of winter weather, we will, over time, have the relationships, systems, and plans needed to ensure a coordinated regional response to any crisis.
Our Core Tenets: Recognizing the importance of relationships to response, the Coalition is at its best when it adheres to certain core tenets. The Board expects Coalition members and employees to act ethically at all times and to acknowledge their adherence to its core tenets.
Our Mission is to progressively build a strong framework for a coordinated emergency management, to adapt and overcome preparedness challenges, throughout the Northeast Region.
We do this by (1) promoting strong relationships and partnerships, (2) facilitating communication for improved situational awareness, (3) identifying hazards and risks, (4) prioritizing and addressing gaps through multi-agency planning, training, exercising, and resource coordination and management.
Our Goal is to build and enhance partnerships that allow our healthcare community to make strategic unified decisions effectively.
Our Objective: Whether responding to an immediate surge of patients or a contagion, or mitigating the impacts of winter weather, we will, over time, have the relationships, systems, and plans needed to ensure a coordinated regional response to any crisis.
Our Core Tenets: Recognizing the importance of relationships to response, the Coalition is at its best when it adheres to certain core tenets. The Board expects Coalition members and employees to act ethically at all times and to acknowledge their adherence to its core tenets.
One Community
We are committed to the belief that, although we live in many cities and counties in our Northeast Kansas region, we are one community.
Service
The power we have as an organization derives from the effectiveness with which we serve those by whom we are called upon to lead. By consistantly and loyally servicing our members and our community, we will become powerful in our ability to respond to crisis.
Advocacy
We have a fundamental obligation to identify and advocate for issues that are consistent with our mission and in the best interests of our members and the community. We will take a clear and visible stand on these issues, even when doing so may be unpopular.
Collaboration
We believe that greater wisdom, commitment, and determination are achieved through cooperative interaction and deliberation. We will consistently look for opportunities to reason together in decisions and fulfilling our mission.
Leadership
We believe we have an obligation to our members and our communities to question the present state, to envision a future as it can and should be, to create and communicate plans to achieve that future, to inspire our members and our communities to pursue those plans, and to empower our members and communities to take those actions necessary to achieve the desired results.
Integrity
What we do will be a consistent and accurate reflection of the things we say. We will keep our commitments. We will be up-front with our agendas. We will deal in a forthright manner in all relationships, whether we agree or disagree with the issues under consideration.
Inclusiveness
We are committed to the varied interests of our members and the community in which we live. We will be strenghtened as an organization by the extent to which we welcome and effectively represent the depth, breadth, and fullness of their ideas.
Partnership
In relationships with members, the community, governing bodies, and other business and civic organizations, we will conduct our affairs in the fullest expression of openness, trust, and a genuine commitment to mutual satisfaction and success.
Core Members
- EMS
- Emergency Management
- Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAH)
- Public Health
- All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC)
- Businesses
- Clinics, Rehabilitation Agencies, and Public Health Agencies as Providers of Outpatient Physical Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology Services
- Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC)
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (CORF)
- End Stage Renal Disease Facilities (ESRD)
- First Responders
- Healthcare Associate Infection Coordinators
- Home Health Agencies (HHA)
- Hospices
- Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
- Long Term Care Facilities (LTC)
- Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO)
- Pediatric Care Providers (PCP)
- Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF)
- Religious Non-medical Health Care Institutions (RNHCI)
- Rural Health Clinics (RHC) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
- Transplant Centers
- Quality Improvement Professionals