About The South East Kansas Healthcare Coalition
about SEKSHCC
The South East Kansas Healthcare Coalition (SEKSHCC) includes the following twelve Kansas Counties: Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Crawford, Cherokee, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, and Woodson.
We are a collaborative network of healthcare organizations, and their respective public and private sector response partners, that serve as a multi-agency coordinating group to enhance healthcare system preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.
In other words, Healthcare Coalitions (HCC) are healthcare system partners that come together to plan strategies for responding to local events. Healthcare Coalitions train and exercise together to maximize local capabilities related to disaster planning, response, recovery and mitigation.
The development and sustainment of the SEKSHCC Coalition is a federal initiative and a requirement of the Healthcare Preparedness Program (HPP) Cooperative Agreement funded by the Health & Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
The purpose of HCCs is to ensure local healthcare partners plan collaboratively for the risks facing their community and identify available local resources.
SEKSHCC also encourages the involvement of local, community-based partners. These memberships are crucial for ensuring the coordination of preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities. Essential partner members include:
Responsibilities of Members:
General Members are expected to:
General Members who meet the above responsibilities have voting privileges and are eligible to utilize mini grants and eligible to have training/conference expenses paid from healthcare coalition funds.
We are a collaborative network of healthcare organizations, and their respective public and private sector response partners, that serve as a multi-agency coordinating group to enhance healthcare system preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.
In other words, Healthcare Coalitions (HCC) are healthcare system partners that come together to plan strategies for responding to local events. Healthcare Coalitions train and exercise together to maximize local capabilities related to disaster planning, response, recovery and mitigation.
The development and sustainment of the SEKSHCC Coalition is a federal initiative and a requirement of the Healthcare Preparedness Program (HPP) Cooperative Agreement funded by the Health & Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
The purpose of HCCs is to ensure local healthcare partners plan collaboratively for the risks facing their community and identify available local resources.
SEKSHCC also encourages the involvement of local, community-based partners. These memberships are crucial for ensuring the coordination of preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities. Essential partner members include:
- Hospital (H)*
- Public Health (PH)*
- Emergency Management (EM)*
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS)*
- Religious Non-Medical Healthcare (RNHC)
- Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS)
- Hospice
- Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF)
- All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- Transplant Center
- Long Term Care (LTC)
- Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
- Home Health Agency (HHA)
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Center (CORF)
- Critical Access Hospital (CAH)
- Clinic, Rehabilitation Agency, and Public Health Agency as Provider of Outpatient Physical Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology Services
- Community Mental Health Center (CMHC)
- Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)
- Rural Health Clinic (RHC)
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- End-Stage Renal Disease (RSRD) Facility
Responsibilities of Members:
General Members are expected to:
- Attend and participate 3 of 6 the scheduled bi-monthly meetings annually.
- Participate in 2 of the scheduled Redundant Communications Drills annually.
- Participate in surveys and Coalitions polls
- Review minutes of SEKHCC meetings and provide any needed feedback to the SEKHCC Coordinator.
- Provide input to their Voting Member regarding their opinion on matters up for vote.
- Register for SEKHCC Meetings and Trainings using KSTRAIN.
General Members who meet the above responsibilities have voting privileges and are eligible to utilize mini grants and eligible to have training/conference expenses paid from healthcare coalition funds.