YOUR PROVIDERS AT
Ozarks Healthcare Gainesville MAIN PROVIDER
“It can be challenging because we
VISITING SPECIALISTS Dr. Edward R. Henegar
Dr. William A. McGee BOARD-CERTIFIED
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON Provides wound care services.
Dr. Praveen Datar BOARD-CERTIFIED PULMONOLOGIST
Provides pulmonology care services for Gainesville, Mountain Grove, Thayer, and Winona.
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babies here. We’ve had chainsaw injuries. We have people show up unresponsive at our doors. And then we have normal family practice things like strep throat and broken bones. Trisha Vigna, Nurse Practitioner, Ozarks Healthcare Gainesville
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I’ve delivered babies here. We’ve had chainsaw injuries. We have people show up unre- sponsive at our doors. And then we have normal family practice things like strep throat and broken bones and that kind of stuff.”
Compassion also runs deep in the staff; as most are local to the area, they understand the
difficulties many families in their midst face. This empathy comes through in the respectful way each patient is treated.
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have a poorer community,” Vigna said. “Sometimes access to funds is hard, so you have to kind of adapt to what the commu- nity and the patients can afford. A lot of times with follow-up care, you know they can’t make it to West Plains, or they’re not going to, so you have to change their care accordingly. You have to take care of it all at once knowing they may not come back.” Vigna came to the clinic after working for one of the largest hospitals in Arkansas, moving back to be nearer to family. She said the medicine she practices today more closely resembles what she envisioned do- ing in healthcare in the first place. “After I graduated from high school, I went straight into the medical field and got my nursing training in 2004,” she said. “I really enjoy healthcare and med- icine. I just wanted to be able to learn more about it and be able to work in the field and provide care to the area that I live in. I wanted to help take care of peo- ple and make a difference.” Unlike many rural small-town hos- pitals, the future for Ozarks Healthcare clinics is bright. The health system con- tinues to make the clinics a priority, reg- ularly investing in their physical space as well as equipment and services. Ozarks Healthcare Thayer, for example, recently gained a pharmacy when the healthcare system bought a drugstore that was for sale in town. “This is going to be a flagship model,” said Katie Mahan, pharmacy director. “We wanted a model where the patient could go see the provider, the provider would write the prescription and then we could fill it right there on-site. This is the first clinic location that we’re doing this in. It helps the patient because they can get ev- erything in one stop.” Mahan said investing in communities
where other healthcare providers are scal- ing back or leaving altogether is a testament to Ozarks Healthcare’s overall mission. “I think the main benefit of having the clinics is that they make healthcare conve- nient and affordable for people in the com- munity,” she said. “Taking healthcare to those rural areas, and thereby preventing people from having to drive an hour or two to receive healthcare, is key to giving the patient options and providing outstanding medical care in the community.”
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