SERVICE AREA CLINICS


1. Ozarks Healthcare in Alton 100 Medical Drive Alton, MO 65606


2. Ozarks Healthcare


in Gainesville 39 Medical Drive Gainesville, MO 65655


3. Ozarks Healthcare


in Mammoth Spring 260 Main Street


Mammoth Spring, AR 72554


4. Ozarks Healthcare in Mountain Grove 500 E. 19th Street


Mountain Grove, MO 65711


5. Ozarks Healthcare in Mountain View 220 N. Elm Street


Mountain View, MO 65548


6. Ozarks Healthcare in Thayer 1375 Nettleton Avenue Thayer, MO 65791


7. Ozarks Healthcare in Winona 9104 State Highway 19 Winona, MO 65588


8. Ozarks Healthcare Pediatrics 312 Kentucky Avenue West Plains, MO 65775


9. West Plains


Family Medicine 181 Kentucky Avenue (Highland Park) Suite 100 West Plains, MO 65775


10. Ozarks Healthcare Family Care


1307 Porter Wagoner Boulevard West Plains, MO 65775


or you might die at home — and they’d rather do the latter. “I think that’s why being a walk-in clinic is so important. We know that if we weren’t here, many patients simply wouldn’t both- er seeking medical attention.”


Williams, who has been with the clin- ic for four years, is another local product having grown up in nearby Houston. As such, she understands the idiosyncrasies of the local population, not to mention their expectations of the small-town clinic. “We’ve had nights where at the end of the day we’ve shut down the walk-in clinic,


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There are 9 additional clinics in the West Plains city limits. For a complete list go to www.ozarkshealthcare.com/locations


It’s really cool to me that we can get to know our patients here, that we know their mom is this person and their grandma is that person ... It’s really just providing that community-based healthcare.


Reese Marriott, Nurse Practitioner, Ozarks Healthcare Mountain View ”


but we have a family come in with three sick kids,” she said. “The walk-in may be closed, but I know if we don’t see them there’s no one else for them to see, so you just do it. You stay late and get them taken care of because that’s what you’ve got to do.” Mountain Grove is a good example of what a valuable conduit the clinics can be be-


tween local patients and the medical specialties they might never seek out themselves. “Most rural clinics do multiple things, but we probably have more than most,” she


said. “We have providers in behavioral health, we have physical therapy in the building. Cardiology comes up once a month. Pulmonology and rheumatology have all been com- ing up. It’s very rare, for sure.”


A common trait among the clinics is the closeness of the teams that work there. Medical and support staff have to remain flexible and ready for anything that walks through the door. “It can be challenging at times just because you never know what exactly is going to come due to the larger hospitals and facilities being so far away,” said Trisha Vigna, a nurse practitioner with Ozarks Healthcare Gainesville. “We see such a variety of stuff.


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