Welcome Lisa Childress, PA-C

We are thrilled to welcome physician assistant Lisa Childress to the Amberwell Health surgical care team. Lisa previously served for six years at Amberwell Atchison and is returning after spending a year at a larger healthcare system in Shawnee Mission. Lisa is excited to rejoin the Amberwell Health surgical care team because she values patient-to-provider interaction, […]
Family Nurse Practitioner Sarah Bakri Joins Primary Care Team

We are excited to welcome Family Nurse Practitioner Sarah Bakri to the Amberwell Health primary care team. Sarah’s primary focus will be providing care in our walk-in clinic. Sarah decided to go back to school to earn her doctorate of nursing practice after spending three years in Angola, Africa, and seeing the state of healthcare […]
Primary Care Provider Dr. Tyler Darland to Join Amberwell Health in October

Amberwell Health is excited to announce that family physician Dr. Tyler Darland will be joining the primary care team in Atchison this October. Dr. Darland, along with his wife Laura, are returning to Kansas after three years spent in Greeley, Colorado, where Dr. Darland performed his residency in Family Medicine and obtained extensive training in […]
Nurse Practitioner Stacy Scott Joins Amberwell Horton Clinic as a Full-time Family Care Provider

The community of Horton now has a full-time, family practice provider. We are excited to welcome Stacy Scott, FNP-C, to the Amberwell Horton Clinic family care team. Stacy is the first full-time provider to join Amberwell Horton Clinic and will begin accepting patients August 1. Stacy grew up in Northeast Kansas, and she and her family […]
Aggie Asher Receives Multiple Awards for Leadership and Service

Social services manager Aggie Asher has been identified as one of “50 Kansans You Should Know” in the June 2020 edition of Ingram’s Magazine. Over the past forty years, Aggie has touched many lives as a dedicated, compassionate social worker, and she has served thirty of those years with Amberwell Health. In addition to receiving the Ingram’s award, Aggie was also the recipient of the 2019 Amberwell Health Leader of the Year award. Aggie was […]
Helping Patients Live Life to the Fullest

Occupational therapists enable people of all ages to live life to its fullest by helping them promote health, and prevent—or live better with—injury, illness, or disability. Occupational therapy helps people do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities. Impact on Patient Care Our team of occupational therapists […]
Connecting Every Patient With Care

Patient Access Week 2020
Get to Know Our Healthcare Information Management Team

A great healthcare information management team is at the core of everything a hospital does, and we are extremely fortunate to have an excellent team at Atchison Hospital. March 22-28 is the thirty-first annual Health Information Professionals Week, and we are happy to take this opportunity to get to know our own health information management […]
Pleasant Ridge Middle School’s Career Exploration Class Visits Atchison Hospital.

On Wednesday, February 25, 2020, Atchison Hospital received an exciting visit from the Pleasant Ridge Middle School’s 8th grade Career Exploration Class, taught by Mr. John Tucker. We had two nurse practitioners, our lab director, and a radiographer speak to the students about their own experiences as students and the schooling they had to complete […]
Congratulations to our latest Swing Bed alumnus.

Congratulations to Edna Brantley, our latest Swing Bed alumnus! We have enjoyed her visit with us and will miss having her! Atchison Hospital’s Swing Bed program acts as a bridge for patients who are not quite ready to return home even after their intensive acute care has ended. We provide 24-hour, skilled-nursing care, therapy services, […]