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Dear Community Partners,

Here are today’s updates:

• Stormont Vail Presenting Sponsor of WIBW Job Fair
• Walk with a Doc Saturday with Dr. Jacqueline Kenoly
• Juneteenth: Community Celebrations Planned
• 2024 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Fundraiser · through July 7, 2024
• “To Your Health” on WIBW-TV Tonight – Dr. Anwar Khoury

Stormont Vail Presenting Sponsor of WIBW Job Fair

Stormont Vail Health will be sponsoring the WIBW Job Fair to be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, at West Ridge Mall in Topeka. Please encourage friends and family to stop by to learn about career opportunities with our organization.

Terri Dean, Director of Talent Acquisition, said two Stormont Vail team members will be at the job fair sharing information about how Stormont Vail is a great place to work. Current job openings include surgical technologists, patient care techs, medical assistants, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practice Nurses, medical transcriptionists, clinical dietitian, admissions coordinator, mammographer, CT and MRI technologists, ultrasonographer, radiologic technologist, medical laboratory scientists, pharmacist, athletic trainers, and more. More than 20 other employers will also be present at the fair.

Walk with a Doc Saturday with Dr. Jacqueline Kenoly

You are invited to join Jacqueline Kenoly, M.D., Express Care physician, for our monthly Walk with a Doc event at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 15. We will meet on the east side of Lee Arena at Washburn University. The event is free and all are welcome to walk to better health! Dr. Kenoly will give a brief, informative talk about wellbeing and healthy lifestyles. We hope to see you there!

Juneteenth: Community Celebrations Planned

Juneteenth, which is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Black Independence Day, is a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than three million enslaved people living in the Confederate states to be free. It wouldn’t be until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, two years later on June 19, 1865 that the state’s residents finally learned that slavery had been abolished. Juneteenth became a state holiday in Texas in 1980, and was officially made a federal holiday in 2021.

Community Juneteenth celebrations include:

• The 11^th annual Topeka Family and Friends Juneteenth Celebration will be noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at Hillcrest Community Center and Park. There will be a Juneteenth Parade at 11 a.m. on June 19, followed by a program at Evergy Plaza.
• Junction City will hold a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 15, in Heritage Park, 6^th and Washington. Sponsored by the Junction City Juneteenth Community Association, there will be food and craft vendors and music.
• Manhattan is celebrating with several events June 13-19, from food and music to fitness activities. To learn more, visit the Manhattan Juneteenth website.

2024 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Fundraiser · through July 7, 2024

When you shop at Walmart or Sam’s Club, you can help Children’s Miracle Network at Stormont Vail provide life-changing care for our community’s children by donating at the register, at https://lnkd.in/gcSq868n, or via the Walmart app or website. We encourage team members to support this event by sharing the word with family, friends, and neighbors. Thank you for your support!

“To Your Health” on WIBW-TV Tonight – Dr. Anwar Khoury

Dr. Anwar Khoury, OB/GYN at Stormont Vail’s Flint Hills Campus in Junction City, was interviewed about the decrease of people receiving the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, especially men and Hispanics, on tonight’s WIBW “To Your Health.” The segment will air at 10 p.m. on WIBW-TV, Channel 13. The segment will typically repeat at 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Fridays on 13 News This Morning and be posted on wibw.com. Dr. Khoury talks about the importance of the vaccine and why individuals should consider getting it.

We together,
Dr. Kenegy