Chrysanne Grund

Community Health Leaders
2011

Area(s) of Expertise:
Rural health
Access to care
Oral health

Leader's Biography 2011:
Chrysanne has touched the lives of nearly all residents of Wallace and Greeley Counties, providing access to free or low cost prescriptions, developing a parenting class or Girl Power training, leading an effort to revitalize and restore a rural community, and providing breast cancer awareness information and securing a mammography machine through partnership with a regional hospital. She founded the Greeley-Wallace County Healthcare Foundation, a two-community partnership which provides travel funds to local cancer patients through a fundraising Victory Walk. Because of Chrysanne, Wallace County has a state-of-the-art health clinic providing care to residents of one of Kansas's few rural counties without a hospital. As a result of her efforts residents have had access to literally thousands of free or low cost prescriptions since 2004. Chrysanne was responsible for bringing behavioral health services into the clinic to create programs like Girl Power, as well as parent training and oral health services.

Where this leader can be reached today:
Project Director
Greeley County Health Services
504 East 6th Street
Sharon Springs, Kansas 67758
Phone: (785)-821-1104
Fax: (785)-852-4364
Email: cgrund@mygchs.com