Our Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit, 190-licensed bed, acute-care hospital serving the health needs of the more than 65,000 residents of our state county and surrounding communities. We are accredited by the Joint Commission, a prestigious national organization that grades healthcare institutions on quality measures. Our network, which includes the Medical Center, Hospice and Homecare, Medical Foundation, and Health-E-Quip, serves the community with a holistic approach to health.
Our city offers those who live here the best of both worlds - big city conveniences blended with the benefits of a comfortable community filled with a prosperous atmosphere. There is the vibrancy of a city determined to thrive and progress, yet without the big city problems of air pollution, rampant crime, traffic jams and socioeconomic battles.Residents enjoy their central location just a few hours from the Rockies, Ozarks, and the metropolitan areas of Kansas City, Denver, and Dallas. The area enjoys an active cultural arts and entertainment scene as well as outdoor recreational activities that include some of the best hunting anywhere in the country. Quality golf courses include Prairie Dunes Country Club, which hosted the 2002 US Women's Open & the 2006US Senior Open. Family activities include a water park, skateboard park, zoo, museum, local theater, as well as the unique (and nationally recognized) Kansas Cosmo-sphere & Space Center, and Kansas Underground Salt Museum. Quality educational systems (both public and parochial) and also a local community college.