2025 Community Health Needs Assessment to be Hosted by Community Memorial Healthcare

MARYSVILLE -­ Marysville, KS – Over the next few months, Community Memorial Healthcare will be working together with other area community leaders to update the Marshall County, KS 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Today we are requesting Marshall County community members’ input regarding current healthcare delivery and unmet resident needs.

The goal of this assessment update is to understand progress from past community health needs assessments conducted in 2022, 2019 and 2016, while collecting up-to-date community health perceptions and ideas. VVV Consultants LLC, an independent research firm from Olathe, KS has been retained to conduct this countywide research.

A brief community survey has been developed to accomplish this work.  The CHNA survey link can be accessed by visiting Community Memorial Healthcare website and/or Facebook page.  You may also utilize the QR code below for quick access.

All community residents and business leaders are encouraged to complete this online survey by August 15th, 2025.  In addition, a CHNA Town Hall meeting to discuss the survey findings and identify unmet needs will be held on Tuesday, September 23rd 2025 for lunch from 11:30am-1:00pm. More info to come soon! Thank you in advance for your time and support!

If you have any questions regarding CHNA activities, please call (785) 562-2311.

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