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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 in a third-world country. She spent her previous nursing career caring for pediatric patients with...

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 obstetrics. Dr. Darland was born and raised in Wichita and Laura is an Atchison native....

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 are excited to return to the area.   Stacy knew from a young age that she...

The past few months have been challenging for all our communities as we have learned to adjust to a heightened sense of health safety, cleanliness, and precautions. Communities are still working through what the new state of normal will be, and we at Amberwell Health are still maintaining a constant state of preparedness, remaining flexible with changing public health recommendations, and prioritizing the continuation of care. In order to create...

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 nominated and chosen for this recognition by a group of her peers, based on her servant...

Certified registered nurse anesthetist Micah Reece is the newest member of our surgical care team, relocating to Atchison with his wife and two children. Micah was a critical care nurse for three years before earning his Doctor of Nursing Practice. He joins Amberwell Health with four years’ experience as a CRNA and exceptional talent in anesthesia. One of Micah’s favorite aspects of being a CRNA is tailoring individualized anesthetic to...

Amberwell Health is honored to welcome Dr. Chris Warholic as a full-time provider with our emergency care team. Dr. Warholic’s strong desire to help people drives his dedication to be an excellent doctor. He has a passion for lifelong learning and is always looking for ways to make a difference in people’s lives. Dr. Warholic is passionate about helping the vulnerable and underserved. He’s volunteered his medical services at various...

Family medicine and obstetric services return to Horton, Kansas as the newly remodeled Horton Clinic begins taking new patient appointments starting June 1, 2020.

Celebrating Our “Heroes in Scrubs” Nursing is the thread that connects a patient’s healthcare journey from the beginning of life to the end of life. Across every aspect of the patient experience, nurses provide and protect the needs of each individual patient, and we are excited to celebrate our nurses in honor of Nurses Week 2020. This year, in light of the current state of healthcare around the world, we chose to focus on nurses...

Catherine Spangler, DNP, has served part-time in the Emergency Department Atchison Hospital & Clinics since 2019 and has recently joined our full-time medical staff. Catherine is a board-certified nurse practitioner with over thirty-five years of nursing experience in critical care and emergency medicine. She served six years as a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist and nineteen years as an emergency medicine nurse practitioner. Catherine is passionate about helping members of the...