Location(s): Onaga
Having a baby is a miracle, and Community HealthCare System nurses make sure you get the personalized, compassionate, one-on-one care and attention you deserve in a warm, supportive, family-oriented environment that meets your and your baby’s unique needs. We support your entire journey into parenthood and strive to resolve any fears or anxiety you may have about giving birth and being a parent. CHCS offers you a childbirth experience like no other.
We feature:
An experienced labor and delivery team.
24-hour obstetric anesthesia for pain management.
An emergency cesarean childbirth team.
A neonatal specialist referral relationship.
Spacious, all-private rooms.
Personalized and experienced postpartum nursing care.
Queen size, adjustable massage bed for postpartum comfort.
A safe, comfortable environment.
A locked unit with an infant security system.
At CHCS, we offer you choices so you can tailor your family-centered birth experience to reflect your wishes. Unique to CHCS, our innovative care model ensures mothers and infants are cared for as one, by the same nurse, to facilitate teaching of parenting skills and to promote family bonding. This model of care keeps baby with the mother longer and allows the father to have a more active role in the birthing process. And, since baby stays close to mother, mothers and babies will experience more successful breastfeeding, which provides for optimal nutrition and immune system support.
Our nurses are trained to promote and provide an expanded menu of options for labor and pain management and new infant care, all in keeping with our respect for the role of the mother.
We provide a variety of prenatal and postpartum services to meet your every need.
The goal of our family-centered care is to obtain the best possible healthy outcome for all members of the family, both individually and as a group.
Special Services for Mothers
Lactation services with an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant on staff
Complimentary labor and delivery unit tour
Physician referrals
Keepsake birth certificate
Website birth announcement (by request)
Private rooms
Childbirth, breastfeeding, and infant care classes four times per year
Complimentary steak dinner for couples to celebrate baby's birth
If you would like a tour or information on birthing classes, or if you have any questions or concerns, please call us at the number below.
Contact Us
Community HealthCare System
Katie Kufahl, RN
785-889-5122
Marcus Weiser, DO
Medical Staff
Location: Onaga
Position: Physician
Medical Services: Childbirth, Diabetic Care, Emergency Department, Family Practice, Medical & Surgical Care, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youth Services
Marcus Weiser, DO
Dr. Marcus Weiser graduated from Bethany College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and from medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. He completed his residency at Via Christi (St. Joseph and St. Francis) in Wichita and served as chief resident. Dr. Weiser is board-certified in family medicine. He is also trained to do obstetrics and performs EGDs (esophagogastroduodenoscopy), colonoscopies, and C-sections. He particularly enjoys teaching both third- and fourth-year medical students as a clinical assistant professor in the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Family Medicine and as a clerkship preceptor for the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Dr. Weiser enjoys caring for others in a variety of settings. “I love family medicine, and it is a privilege to serve others as a family medicine physician. I find the variety that rural family medicine offers both challenging and rewarding,” he says. Dr. Weiser was born and raised in northwest Kansas and lives in Onaga with his wife and five children. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, helping coach his kids’ sports teams, and, occasionally, golfing. He also likes basketball, hunting, fishing, shooting, and grilling or smoking meats.
David Allen, MD
Medical Staff
Location: Holton
Position: Physician
Medical Services: Childbirth, Diabetic Care, Emergency Department, Family Practice, Medical & Surgical Care, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youth Services
David Allen, MD
Dr. David Allen holds degrees from Kansas State University and the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita. His specialties are family medicine and obstetrics, including C-sections, GI procedures (upper and lower endoscopy), and pediatric services.
Nancy J. Zidek, MD
Medical Staff
Locations: Frankfort, Onaga, Holton
Position: Physician
Medical Services: Childbirth, Diabetic Care, Emergency Department, Family Practice, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youth Services
Nancy J. Zidek, MD
Dr. Nancy Zidek graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor of arts in microbiology and holds a degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Wesley Family Practice in Wichita, Kansas. She is particularly interested in women’s health and performs colposcopies and places birth control implants and intrauterine devices, or IUDs. Dr. Zidek is a lifelong Kansas resident and a second-generation doctor. Her father practiced for more than 40 years in Marysville, Kansas, and she knew from a young age that she wanted to join the same profession. She enjoys “being part of the family” and watching her young patients grow and mature into adults. Dr. Zidek is married and has two almost-grown kids. Her daughter, Bethany, is married and in medical school, and her son, Elijah, attends Kansas State University. Dr. Zidek and her husband live in Onaga and have two “spoiled mutts.” They also feed hummingbirds in the summer and have up to 10 “hummers” who visit their feeders.