Post Rock Family Medicine is composed of five separate practices: Daniel J. Sanchez, MD, Prairie Star Family Practice, LifeLine Family Medicine, Rooks County Health Center Clinic, and Solomon Valley Family Medicine. We have clinics in Plainville, Stockton and Palco.

Our mission is to provide the people of Rooks County and northwest Kansas the opportunity to optimize their health through a patient-centered medical home that delivers professional, compassionate, excellent service.

We all work together as a team to coordinate your care; when you see any of PRFM’s providers, that information is shared back to your primary provider through the electronic health record.

Our office hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm, Monday through Friday.  You can also find our providers staffing Doctors Without Delay, a walk in clinic at Rooks County Health Center, open 8:00am to 6:00pm, Monday through Saturday.

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Post Rock Family Medicine is committed to improving the quality of health care that you receive.  One project we have been working on is improving medical care for people with diabetes.  National guidelines advise medical providers to perform a test for microalbumin in patients with diabetes at least once a year.  The purpose of the simple urine test is to check for kidney damage that may be present due to the effects of diabetes.  Early detection is important.  It may lead to changes in treatment that can help to preserve as much kidney function as possible.  Click here if you want to read more about the microalbumin test.

During this project, we have been collecting data on the number of diabetic patients who have received the test within the previous year.  By drawing attention to the importance of the test and educating our providers and staff, we hoped to improve the rate of testing.  We are happy to report that our efforts have been successful.  Since the start of the project, we have collectively improved the testing rate by 47%!

Post Rock will soon be a part of the Kansas Health Information Exchange (KHIE).  This program will provide a smoother flow of information between medical providers regarding patient information.  This is a new program and Post Rock is excited to be on the cutting edge for medical clinics.  KHIE will run the Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) which will be a virtual file share of medical information.  Much like protected information can be shared between Post Rocks offices, patient information will be securely stored and available to other Kansas participants.

The intent of this program is to further develop patient care in a way that promotes prompt, efficient, and exact exchange of information from one medical provider to another. This network is very new and is just moving out of the development stages to be implemented at a few clinics and at some of the larger medical facilities in Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, and of course, Rooks County!

We are proud to be a part of this new technology and look to utilize every way to make care for our patients the best it can be, regardless of potential cost.

We understand that some of you may have questions about the program.  You can call us to ask about KHIN and KHIE or you can check out www.khie.org.

Our Notice of Privacy Practices has also changed as a result of these updates.  Please know that your information will become a part of the state network automatically.  If you do not wish this to be the case, then you must visit the KHIE website to exclude yourself.

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Post Rock is happy to welcome Katie Thiesen to its Plainville home until February 22.  She will be shadowing with Dr. Brull and some of the other providers as she completes her clinical rotations with a rural practice.  Katie is a Physicians Assistant student at Wichita State.

Where are you from?

I grew up in Henderson, Nebraska, a small town (even smaller than Plainville) an hour west of Lincoln, Nebraska. After high school, I attended college in Lincoln at Nebraska Wesleyan University then started Physician Assistant School in Kansas at Wichita State University.

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