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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...

Today we celebrate the administrative professionals that help keep Atchison Hospital & Clinics running smoothly every day. While each may have a different title and handle a variety of different things, we all rely on their organizational skills, their flexibility, and their ability to handle the unexpected. They are a vital part of our organization, and we appreciate all they do! Shirley Eckert Surgery Department Secretary "Shirley Eckert is the...

Medical Laboratory Professionals Week - Medical laboratory professionals are often unsung heroes, working behind the scenes to provide care for our patients and contribute to the overall success of their treatment.

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 use functional activity to improve patients’ lives. They provide services to inpatient, outpatient, and home...

Atchison Hospital is grateful for the support we have received from those who have reached out to donate supplies, equipment, and resources. The community has been incredibly supportive for our front line workers during this COVID-19 public emergency.We have had many community members reach out about making face coverings to help protect our community from the spread of COVID-19. To help facilitate these donations, we are providing some patterns and...

Patient Access Week 2020

Rebecca Boust, CRNA, MSNA, APRN, has been serving as a nurse anesthetist on the surgical team of Atchison Hospital & Clinics on a part-time basis since 2018 and has recently joined our team full-time. Rebecca has been a nurse for twenty-two years and a CRNA for nine years. She’s had extensive anesthesia experience in a Level 1 trauma center serving five states, ambulatory surgery centers, and a surgical suite for...

Preparing to treat potential COVID-positive patients is very important. We are all working together to be as prepared and organized as possible for potential coronavirus patients. In addition, there are many other patients who need to seek care in order to avoid more serious illnesses as well as those managing chronic conditions who need to prevent health complications. “Well Patient” areas and entrances To help all patients receive the care...

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 team in honor of the occasion.  The HIM Team  Led by HIM manager, Diana Gaddis,...