Sunflower Health Plan

Fall is the perfect time to encourage your patients to get their vaccines so they can celebrate the season with their favorite activities. 🎃🍬🍂 Get started at bit.ly/3MZZEHA.

Save the Date: Our Final Rural Health Event of the Year in Pittsburg, Kansas! Sunflower Health Plan is thrilled to bring our last health fair of the year to Pittsburg, Kansas, and you’re invited! Join us for an afternoon of FREE health services, giveaways, and more. 📅 When: Thursday, October 24th, 1:00 PM – 6:30 PM 📍 Where: Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas John Parolo Education Center 3015 N Michigan St, Pittsburg, KS 66762 What’s Happening? Free vision screenings with the Envolve Vision Van (first come, first served!) Prescription glasses available (choose frames on site, delivered within a month!) FREE produce and health service giveaways Information tables, resources, and more! A big thank you to our partner, Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas! Don’t miss this opportunity to take advantage of these amazing free services. We can’t wait to see you there! Note: Parental/guardian consent required for anyone under 18. #SunflowerHealthPlan #CommunityHealth #RuralHealth #KansasEvents #HealthFair #PittsburgKS

Centene is hiring a Care Manager for the Sunflower Health Plan in the Care Management department. The ideal candidate will have experience working with foster care and the Department for Children and Families (DCF), covering Southeast of Kansas, to include Pittsburg, Crawford, Dodge City, and Parsons area. This position will require 50% Travel. #managedcare #socialwork #casemanagement

At Sunflower Health Plan, we're always striving to enhance the experience for our members. Starting November 1, we're partnering with SafeRide Health to manage our transportation benefit. This collaboration aims to ensure that our members continue to receive seamless, safe, and reliable transportation services. Providers, please note that while the phone number remains unchanged, SafeRide Health will now offer additional features, such as real-time tracking and text alerts for our members. This change will help our members stay informed about their rides, improving both convenience and satisfaction. For more details on how SafeRide Health will support your patients, visit our Transportation and Gas Reimbursement page, or contact us at 1-877-644-4623. #SunflowerHealthPlan #Kansas #SafeRide

🌟 It's a Sponsor Spotlight! 🌟 Raise the Roof 2024 is thrilled to acknowledge the exceptional support of this year's sponsors. Their commitment to providing affordable housing and empowering families has been instrumental in making this event a reality. Thanks to the generosity of Capitol Federal® Savings Bank, Garver, J.P. Weigand & Sons, Inc. REALTORS, Key Construction, Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, LLP, Patterson Legal Group, PROFILLMENT LLC, Reddi Industries, Inc., and Sunflower Health Plan, we are able to continue our mission of building homes, communities, and hope. Together, we are Raising the Roof! Tickets are still available and don't wait until the last minute to join us for the evening! Visit wichitahabitat.org/rtr for details.

At Sunflower Health Plan, we stand with those impacted by breast cancer. This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are committed to supporting early detection, treatment, and research efforts. Join us in raising awareness and helping to improve the lives of those affected. Together, we can make a difference. #BreastCancerAwareness #SupportAndHope #SunflowerHealthPlan #Kansas

Connecting, collaborating, networking, learning with the Sunflower Health Plan team @ACMHCK Annual Conference Nanette Perrin, PhD, BCBA-D Derrick Hurst Teresa Snow #acmhck2024

Save the Date: Our Final Rural Health Event of the Year in Pittsburg, Kansas! Sunflower Health Plan is thrilled to bring our last health fair of the year to Pittsburg, Kansas, and you’re invited! Join us for an afternoon of FREE health services, giveaways, and more. 📅 When: Thursday, October 24th, 1:00 PM – 6:30 PM 📍 Where: Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas John Parolo Education Center 3015 N Michigan St, Pittsburg, KS 66762 What’s Happening? Free vision screenings with the Envolve Vision Van (first come, first served!) Prescription glasses available (choose frames on site, delivered within a month!) FREE produce and health service giveaways Information tables, resources, and more! A big thank you to our partner, Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas! Don’t miss this opportunity to take advantage of these amazing free services. We can’t wait to see you there! Note: Parental/guardian consent required for anyone under 18. #SunflowerHealthPlan #CommunityHealth #RuralHealth #KansasEvents #HealthFair #PittsburgKS

I hesitated to post this here, but since so many of my contacts are healthcare professionals I felt it was an important story to tell. A few weeks ago, I delivered a sweet baby boy at 32 weeks gestation. My maternity leave wasn’t supposed to start for another 8 weeks and there was still so much to do. This wasn’t a typical early delivery, though. In the weeks prior to my delivery, I developed acute cardiomyopathy, which essentially prohibited my heart from being able to efficiently pump blood throughout my body. I had a 20lb+ weight gain within 5 days due to the fluid retention and my cardiac ejection fraction dropped to <45%. My ECG exposed several long pauses and many ectopic beats. I say all of this because I went to the ER 3 times the week before I delivered and was told each time that my blood pressure and labs looked good and this was all normal pregnancy related. Everyone was most concerned about preeclampsia, which I never developed. After the second ER visit I began tracking my weight, intake, output, BP etc… in spreadsheet form because I was intuitively confident that what I was experiencing was cardiac related and potentially very damaging. This was the very best thing I could have done. As a cardiac nurse, I recognized the signs and symptoms of heart failure and basically demanded certain tests the last time I went to the hospital (the spreadsheet also helped!) This resulted in an urgent cardiac consult, ECG, CT, and echo, all of which confirmed that I was in a very emergent and dangerous situation. From there, baby Reece was delivered via cesarean and I was able to begin the treatment necessary. I’m now following with a cardiologist, the heart failure clinic, and am wearing a heart monitor. My OB team was excellent and this is not to place blame on anyone for not recognizing what was happening with me. Rather to hopefully empower everyone to know their bodies, ask questions, and not be afraid to be a total pain to your healthcare team. I’m so grateful to all of the nurses, physicians, and experts who have cared for me and this sweet little nugget over the past 3 weeks. He’s in the good hands of the NICU team for another week or so. Most patients don’t have the background or knowledge to identify what’s happening to them, but I believe that as healthcare professionals we owe patients the benefit of exploring the rare presentations or random complaints as potential problems, despite the cost or inconvenience it may create. I’m very thankful that my care team entertained my complaints, though a little later than preferred, and we have the ending we do. Pictured, my sweet boy and trusty heart monitor. ❤️

Sunflower Health Plan at the Live Well Age Well put on by Johnson County Park & Recreation. Tons of vendors, giveaways and most importantly, hundreds and hundreds of Johnson County residents. What a wonderful turnout. Feel free to stop by. #SunflowerHealthPlan #Kansas #LiveWellAgeWell #Seniors #Health