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Journal

The issues and information that surround community health are both complex and continuously changing. At GraceMed, we believe it is part of our responsibility as one of the largest providers of community healthcare in the region to keep our patients and the communities we serve as informed as possible. We take on a wide variety of these subjects in our State of Grace magazine while also keeping you informed about our evolving mission to serve the underserved. You can browse through past issues of State of Grace here. We feature selected articles from the magazine in the Journal below from time to time as well as a wide variety of information about GraceMed news, health topics and even the occasional healthy recipe.

9/27/21 9/27/21

Back to Cool

Opinions vary widely about whether it’s a good idea, but regardless of the wisdom involved, our children are headed back to school this fall after a pandemic interruption that began as far back as March of last year. As anyone who can still remember school life can attest, it can be pretty stressful to young, developing minds even without all the disruption the coronavirus has wrought.

7/12/21 7/12/21

Sinking Sand

Time and economic factors have drained small town Kansas of much of its healthcare resources.

6/29/21 6/29/21

The grass is greener at home

GraceMed is blessed to have an amazing family of healthcare providers who bring a diverse range of life and professional experience to their work here. Through the years, many have come to us from nations and cultures as far away as Indonesia, Egypt and Pakistan. But as they say, at least when they’re talking about Kansas, “there’s no place like home.” So we thought we would take a moment to introduce you to three relative newcomers among us for whom coming to GraceMed was a decision to put down professional roots in the place they have always called home, even if they may not have always been here.

6/18/21 6/18/21

Juneteenth and the legacy of healthcare inequity

June 19th marks an important date in the history of African Americans. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that all slaves were given freedom.

6/10/21 6/10/21

Building a bridge over troubled borders

The stories you hear are arguably more novel than the coronavirus itself. One holds that the COVID-19 vaccine contains a microchip the government will use to track you and even control your behavior. Others have claimed that it will alter your DNA or your immune system or that it will render women infertile.

6/7/21 6/7/21

Network

It’s 8:30 on a Tuesday morning, and over in the call center, a new employee is having trouble accessing the server. She’s a little nervous. Everything is new, and she wonders if she did something wrong as she submits a request for IT assistance. A few minutes later, help arrives in the form of Aaron Scales, the 6′ 9″ quiet giant of GraceMed IT.