North West Kansas Healthcare Coalition

Eighteen Counties Strong

Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Graham, Gove, Logan, Ness, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas, Trego, Wallace

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If you are an active member in good standing and do not have a login for the website, please contact your Regional Readiness and Response Coordinator at [email protected].

If you are not a current NWKSHCC member, and would like to learn more about the North West Kansas Healthcare Coalition, visit our About Us webpage. To join our Coalition, please visit our Join webpage for details.

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Members in good standing of the North West Kansas Healthcare Coalition are eligible for member-only website access. To login, use the Login link on the homepage. If you are an active member in good standing, but do not have a login, contact your Readiness and Response Coordinator (RRC) who will direct the Webmaster to send you an email with a unique website registration link. If you don't see the email in your inbox, check your junk folder. Be sure to use your business email address or it will significantly delay the approval process.

Coalition Membership and Website Registration are not the same. When you use the register link on the Register page (under About on the main menu), you are registering for coalition membership, not website access. To join the North West Kansas Healthcare Coalition, visit our Join webpage.

Registered Website Users: When you log into your account, you will see a pop-up box that lists all of the webpages you have access to. Close this box by clicking on the x and use the website top level navigation links to navigate the website.

If you can't access a page, you'll get a login screen. Click on "My Account" in the top level menu (must be logged in) to see if you have permissions to view the blocked page. If you have any questions regarding the pages you can access, visit the FAQ/Help page or contact your Readiness and Response Coordinator at [email protected]. 

Coronavirus

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The purpose and scope of the NWKSHCC is to encourage collaborative healthcare community planning by providing a venue for disaster and health emergency preparedness stakeholders from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to share resources and information in preparedness, response and recovery without compromising proprietary strategies and information of individual agencies. The coalition meets quarterly to conduct coalition business.

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NEW: Inter-facility Transfer - covid 19 Assessment form

Inter-Facility Transfer - COVID 19 Assessment Form:
 
The purpose of this form is to assist in fostering communication during transitions of care, more specifically, to transparently identify the COVID-19 status of the patient/resident prior to transfer between facilities. 
 
The intent is to protect patients/residents, healthcare staff and their facilities as all transferring parties (post-acute care facility, EMS and acute care facilities) will know the COVID-19 screening question answers for the patients/residents as they move throughout the system. By definition for this form, Post-Acute Care facilities refers to any setting in Kansas where a patient/resident receives additional medical care after discharge from a hospital. This form can be utilized in the following transfer scenarios:
 

1. Hospital to Post-Acute Care Facility 
2. Post-Acute Care Facility to Hospital
3. Hospital to Hospital
4. Post-Acute Care Facility to Post-Acute Care Facility

 
We encourage but do not require the use of this form for ALL inter-facility patient movement in Kansas to prevent any adverse events which may severely affect patient prognosis.  We equally encourage facilities to speak with their partners in order to come up with a process of incorporating this form into the patient/resident transfer process."

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COVID-19 Assessment Form

COVID Resources Webpage

Meet your REgional infection preventionist

Monique Cheatum is an Infection Control Specialist assigned to the North West Kansas Region (Region 1).

She will be doing outreach to facilities in our region and is focusing on COVID-19 outbreaks and regulatory compliance issues related to infection control.

She is well versed in policies and procedures related to infection control generally, and COVID-19 more specifically.

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Contact Monique by calling 785-460-1286 or by emailing her at [email protected]. . 

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