Programs
Please take this opportunity to review the many community and business offerings listed below. Included here are many classes and programs offered to our patients and the community. If you have any questions about the information within this section, please contact our Community Outreach Coordinator at (308) 344-8550.
Visit our Calendar of Events to view program dates.
Here are a few of the community outreach programs that Community Hospital currently offers, which were selected from our comprehensive community benefits report:
- Healthy Connections educational seminars: Healthy Connections is a group that we offer for those 50 years and older. Membership and classes are free to members. Click here to learn more about Healthy Connections.
- Public education seminars: Community Hospital offers seminars pertaining to health concerns and new services offered to our community.
- Health fairs: Community Hospital offers a wide variety of health fairs for our community, such as our Community Health Expo in April, and our Diabetic Health Fair usually in the fall. We also offer smaller health fairs in Curtis and Trenton, as well as employer health fairs at local businesses. Fairs offer free health information as well as discounted blood screenings.
- FROG exercise classes: Fitness Reaching Older Generations was a program started by Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department and is offered through our Sterling Connection program completely free of charge. We have FROG classes in McCook, Indianola, Stratton, Trenton, Curtis, Culbertson, Hayes Center, and Palisade.
- Support groups: Community Hospital donates meeting rooms and speakers for our various support groups. A few of them include our grief support group, diabetes support group, and Parkinson's support group.
- New parent and family classes: These classes include childbirth education classes, breastfeeding classes, new infant car seat checks, big kids & babies classes.
- Bryan Health Screenings: Our relationship with Bryan Health allows us to bring their mobile screening units to Community Hospital. These mobile units offer access to tests not normally performed in our area.
- Colorectal screening kits: Every two years we offer our community cost-free colorectal cancer screening kits.