Central Kansas community collaborates to address health needs amid COVID-19
Team members of the community collaboration group in Ellsworth County, central Kansas.
Among the focus areas for hospitals participating in the Compass Network is Community Collaboration and Integration. While the COVID-19 public health emergency has made working closely with others more challenging, community members in the central Kansas county of Ellsworth (pop. 6,231) saw it as an opportunity to forge partnerships to address health needs.
Together we're better
Frequently unintentional silos keep team members and co-workers from collaborative work. It happens in many organizations, including health care. People on different teams, who don’t see one another often or at all, may miss what ought to be obvious chances to work collaboratively.
With a new take on an old adage, making sure the right hand knows what the left hand is doing can make a big difference in providing better patient outcomes, more efficiency and cost savings.