• Benefits

  According to the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) the benefits of a Cardiac Rehab program can include:

  • Live longer and lessen your chances of another cardiac event.
  • Control heart disease symptoms such as chest pain or shortness of breath.
  • Stop or reverse damage to the blood vessels in your heart.
  • Lessen the physical and emotional effects of heart disease.
  • Improve your stamina and strength, getting you back to your usual activities, including work, hobbies and regular excercise.
  • Improve your confidence and wellbeing.

  Recent scientific studies have shown that people who complete a cardiac rehabilitation program can increase their life expectancy by up to five years.

• Who Can Participate

  Anyone with a doctor's referral and has had a cardiac event such as:

  • Congestive Heart Failure
  • Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)
  • Heart Cath/Angioplasty
  • Stent Placement
  • Heart Transplant
  • Open Heart Surgery (Coronary Bypass or Valve Surgery)
  • Stable Angina
  • Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) If you experience leg pain when excercising, see your primary care provider to check for possible PAD.

• Meeting Your Needs

  Our Cardiac Rehab program is designed to meet your specific needs through:

  • Risk Factor Assessments
  • Personalized Excercise Program that progresses from a structured, monitored program to a more independent, less monitored home program
  • Diet Instruction
  • Education focused on lifestyle changes and disease management
  • Emotional Support
  • Assistance and training to monitor blood pressure, lipids/cholesterol and diabetes
  • Facilitate communication with your doctors about your progress

• Meeting Your Goals

  Your personalized program will help you meet your goals including:

  • Increase functional capacity (the ability to carry out activities)
  • Reduce risk factors
  • Improve the quality of life
  • Return to work
  • Improve outlook and emotional stability
  • Increase knowledge about the disease
  • Increase self-management

• Getting Started

  Starla Kernell, RN and Cardiac Rehab Director would be happy to visit with you about the program! Call Starla at 620-873-2141.

Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.

An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.

Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

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Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

• Friend Care Benefits

  Friend care is the perfect option when you or a loved one could use in-home assistance, but are not in need of full-time care. Friend Care benefits include:

  • Remain in the home with assistanceTake some of the stress off caregivers
  • Allow the client to retain their independence
  • Remain in control of your health care decisions
  • Coordination of services agreed upon by the client, the family, and the physician
  • Promotes healing
  • Improves quality of life

• Personalized Services

  Our team is compromised of well-qualified, experienced health care professionals. We strive to provide services with the highest medical and ethical standards. Various levels of care are available, from housekeeping to management of medications. Services are available throughout the week and on weekends as needed. Friend Care is available for anyone who needs it. There are no requirements or restrictions. Assistance will be provided in your home in a professional and effective manner.

  Skilled Nursing Care

  • Management of medications - setting up medications, calling in refills and delivery
  • Venipuncture for lab work
  • Skilled assessment
  • Other services as requested

  Home Health Aide

  • Assistance with personal care and bathing
  •  Preparation of light meals and shopping
  • Housekeeping and laundry
  • Transportation assistance
  • Respite care
  • Other services as requested

• Payment Options

  • Private Pay
  • Senior Care Act or Older American Act
  • If you need help paying for services, contact the Kansas Area Agency on Aging at 800-742-9531. They will be able to provide information and assistance with these programs.

  This program is not covered by Medicare.

• Office Location and Hours

  We are here to help answer any questions you might have about our services.

  Friend Care Office Hours:	Monday - Friday - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  To reach us, call:	(620) 873-9035 or (620) 873-9036

• Service Area

  We are proud to serve all of Meade County, and the surrounding communities of:

  • Kismet
  • Plains
  • Copeland
  • Montezuma
  • Ensign
  • Bucklin
  • Kingsdown
  • Bloom
  • Minneola
  • Ashland
  • Englewood

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Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

• Nursing Staff

  We strive to provide our patients and their families’ service excellence by providing patient and family engagement. We pride ourselves on being patient and family advocates; assisting the patients any way possible during their health care journey. Our nursing staff is available 24-hours a day prepared to assist you, your family, and our community in time of need, whether you are in the emergency room, inpatient or outpatient. There is a minimum of two (2) RNs and one (1) information assistant/certified nurse’s aide, in-house, at all times. Our ideal staffing is three (3) nurses and three (3) certified nurses aides to provide top notch care our patients and families deserve.

  There are 20 high low beds with capabilities of wireless alarms, sitting positions, and weighing options. A negative pressure and positive pressure room are available, as well as a special care room, right off the nurses’ station.  All rooms are equipped with computers for bed-side charting promoting time spent with patients.

  AVHS MDH nursing staff strives to provide our patients and their families’ service excellence by engaging and empowering the patient and family.  Bedside reporting is done utilizing the SBAR format: This is done at the bedside to provide a secure and comforting manner of shift transition. We recommend our patients and families ask questions and express their goals and expectations of the care they are receiving. Currently, we are in a phase of painting our patient care areas. Once this project is complete communication boards will be displayed in each patient room. The boards will portray hourly rounding, patient goals, and contact information. This is another resource to empower patients and their families to feel involved and to understand what is happening with their loved one.

  AVHS MDH nursing staff remains up-to-date with regulations by attending educational sessions and providing teach back. AVHS offers monthly education sessions, policy reviews, quality improvement implementation, and annual skills competency check-offs for our nursing staff. In healthcare, where the only constant is the compassionate care the clinical staff, including nursing, will provide you, the rules and regulations are a revolving door of change. Our nursing staff strives to maintain and provide the best standard of care for you and your loved ones.  We also provide a discharge packet with patient portal instructions, health profile information, infection prevention information, medication teaching, and your discharge planning checklist. Our ultimate goal is your safety in returning home or transitioning safely and knowledgeably into the next step from our care.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

• Health and wellness is a team approach. It takes a team to fulfill a dream. That is what I find at Artesian Valley Health System Physical Therapy. Kim Skinner and her staff work together with you to maintain or improve your body's ability to move forward restoring or improving function. Thus far, I have rehabilitated a knee ACL graft, turf toe and rotator cuff surgery. Currently, we are adapting to challenges a chronic illness can bring. I would recommend AVHS Physical Therapy department to anyone serious about healing.

  Raye McCampbell

• We have the best physical therapy department in this part of the state. They know what they're doing and have helped me a lot since I got hurt.

  Milton Tacha

• The PT crew we have here are on top of things and very professional. They stick with you until you reach your goal.

  Becky Berryman

• I think they literally had to kick me out of rehab! Because I did so well and they're so good in their physical therapy department that I didn't want to quit!

  Barb Johannsen

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

What is Pulmonary Rehabilitation?

Who can partcipate?

The benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation

What our Pulmonary Rehabilitation program offers

• Radiology

  Radiology Services:

  • X-Ray
  • CT
  • Mobile MRI
  • DEXA
  • Digital Radiography
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Mammography
  • Ultrasound including Vascular and Echocardiography

  Call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141 and ask for the Radiology Department for information about our radiology services.

• X-Ray

  In 2015, MDH installed a new OTC12 Digital Radiographic System in the Radiology Department.

  Patients will benefit from faster exam times and a comfortable, safe experience during their x-ray procedures. The advanced digital detector technology provides high resolution images while reducing the amount of radiation per exposure by more than half from older technology.

  Hospital X-Ray Technologists also have the flexibility to utilize the digital detector in other areas of the hospital where digital technology isn’t yet available such as the emergency room, OR, or patient rooms. In these cases, a portable x-ray machine is utilized with the digital receptor for patients unable to come to the Radiology Department.

• CT Scans

  If you need more information than an x-ray can provide, we have a 16-slice Toshiba CT scanner available 7 days a week.

  A computerized tomography (CT) scan combines a series of X-ray images taken from different angles and uses computer processing to create cross-sectional images, or slices, of the bones, blood vessels and soft tissues inside your body.

• NEW 3D Mammography

  Benefits of our 3D mammography include:

  • Most accurate breast cancer screening available.
  • Detects more cancers at earlier stages than standard 2D.
  • Reduces the need for additional testing or recalls.

  We strive to make mammograms as comfortable as possible!

• Mobile MRI

  You no longer need to travel if your physician orders an MRI. Every Wednesday we are able to provide MRI services via a traveling service. This is a great option for diagnosing internal issues without the risks of radiation. With a physician order, you can schedule your MRI appointment by calling 620-873-2141.

• Nuclear Medicine

  In 2016, MDH purchased a new GE Millennium camera capable of doing heart studies, thyroid scans, bone scans, and hida (gall bladder) scans. This technology compliments our other diagnostic tests. Where an MRI or a CT scan shows us what an organ looks like, nuclear medicine is able to show us how that organ is actually functioning. This can be incredibly important when diagnosing some types of heart problems.

• Ultrasound

  Our Phillips ultrasound machine is available 4 days a week Mon-Wed and Fri, and is capable of Echocardiograms, vascular ultrasounds, upper abdominal ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, renal ultrasound and bladder ultrasounds.

  The sonogram/ultrasound technology uses high-frequency sound waves to make images of the internal structures and organs.

• Bone Density Testing

  With our GE Lunar machine, we are able to offer DEXA scans to screen for osteoporosis and predict your risk of bone fractures. This can also be referred to as an osteogram, bone density test, and bone densiometry. It is not to be confused with nuclear bone scans which we also offer.

  DEXA scans are available Monday-Friday.

• Respiratory Therapy

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• Sleep Lab

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Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Paid Time Off for Full Time Employees Includes Vacation and Personal Days as well as Paid Holidays Maternity/Personal Leave

Employee Assistance Program Free Nutrition Counseling Gym Discounts

• Wound Care

  Each wound is treated individually. Treatments are specific to the patient as well as to the cause and type of the wound. A comprehensive treatment approach is used between Wound care, physicians, surgeons, podiatrists, radiology and nurses to help wounds heal faster and prevent them from recurring. In severe cases, treatment is focused on saving as much of the limb as possible instead of amputation.

• Complex and Nonhealing Wounds

  Wound care at Meade District Hospital provides personalized diagnosis and treatments for the following conditions:

  • Arterial wounds
  • Venous insufficiency & ulcers
  • Diabetic foot ulcers
  • Skin tears
  • Nonhealing surgical wounds
  • Secondary wounds occuring after cancer treatments
  • Burns
  • Pressure injuries
  • Bed sores - all stages and all types
  • Dry gangrene or tissue death
  • Surgical incisions
  • Traumatic injury wounds

• Symptoms

  Contact Wound care at Meade District Hospital if you have a wound or scab that:

  • Has not healed or is healing very slowly
  • The are around it is swollen, warm, red or painful
  • Comes and goes in the same place
  • Continus to seep, bleed or drain
  • You are experiencing leg pain or swelling

• Diagnosis

  Wound healing stats with the right diagnosis. We diagnose each would for its type and cause. Using a variety of tests, we can determine the diagnosis and treatment options. Diagnosis tests include Dopper Testing and ABI (Ankle-brachial index).

• Personalized Treatments

  Our personalized treatments consist of:

  • Appropriate bandage systems
  • Pain control
  • Helping the patient feel as socially comfortable as possible

  Specific Treatments Include:

  • Total Contact Casting the Gold Standard Treatment for Diabetic Foot Ulcers (A method only availabe at 6% of treating facilites.)
  • VAC (Vacuum Assisted Closure)
  • Venus Compression Bandage Systems
  • MDT
  • Allografts

• Contact

  Wound Care at Meade District Hospital is provided by Cody Keith, WCC. Cody is certified in Wound Care by the Wound Care Education Institute.

  Call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141 and ask for Cody Keith or Wound Care.