Joan Pfannenstiel, RN, BSN
Administrator
Joined her mother-in-law's agency in 1988 and has run it since 2006. Fort Hays State nursing graduate.
Our people
Meet our team
Most grew up within forty miles of Main Street. A few married into it.
Our team
The people at your door
Dr. Thomas Dreiling, MD
Medical Director
Hays family physician for thirty years who reviews our clinical programs.
Carmen Ruiz, RN
Director of Nursing
Former ICU nurse in Wichita who came home to Ellis County and built our heart-failure program.
Ben Pfannenstiel, PT, DPT
Therapy Director
Third generation in the family business. Specializes in balance and joint-replacement recovery.
Danielle Okafor, RN, CWOCN
Wound Care Nurse
Certified wound, ostomy and continence nurse and the person other clinicians call first.
Marlene Schmidt, LMSW
Medical Social Worker
Knows every KanCare form and Area Agency on Aging program in western Kansas.
Gary Wasinger
Equipment & Community Liaison
Retired farmer who runs the equipment loan closet and delivers walkers to the far corners of Trego County.
Ashley Brungardt
Intake Coordinator
The friendly voice on the main line who turns a referral into a first visit.
Sample family reviews
Ellis County families
Rosemary took care of my grandmother in 1975. Joan's nurses took care of my mother last spring. That's this family.
Forty minutes of gravel to our place outside Ransom, twice a week, and they never once came late.
Ben had me back on the tractor by harvest. My wife wasn't sure that was a good thing.
Danielle healed a wound on Dad's foot that two clinics had given up on.
The night nurse knew Mom's whole history when I called at 2 a.m. We stayed home and she was fine.
Marlene sat at my kitchen table and filled out every KanCare page with me.
Gary brought a shower chair out the same afternoon I called. On a Saturday.
They talk to you like a neighbor, because they are one.
After Dad's stroke they had nursing, therapy and speech all working together. He's reading the paper again.
Neighbors taking care of neighbors.
Call the office, or ask your doctor or the hospital in Hays to send the referral to Pfannenstiel Family Home Health.