Locally, Ellis County residents have a wide range of quality health care options including:
- Access to general practice and specialty physicians
- Six assisted-living facilities
- Four facilities with 24-hour skilled nursing services
- HaysMed, The University of Kansas Health System, a nonprofit, full-service hospital recently designated as one of several Outstanding Rural Health programs in the United States and whose services include:
- Family Medicine and Convenient Care Walk-In Clinic
- Emergency, Surgical, Robotic Surgery and Intensive Care Units
- Neonatal and Pediatric
- Outpatient Rehab and Hospice
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center
- Dreiling Schmidt Cancer Institute
- Debakey Heart Institute
- Orthopedic Institute
- EagleMed
- Mental health programs through High Plains Mental Health Center and Catholic Charities Outreach
- Three home health agencies