What the design does do is


of the physicians very accessible


it makes all “


to one another. All of our offices are side-by-side,


so it makes it easy to consult.


Dr. Praveen Datar PULMONOLOGIST


even though we were in the same building previously, their offices were on one side of the building and ours were on the other side. It was very difficult to communicate; sometimes we’d have to text. Now, I just walk over to an adjacent room.” For everything that’s new here, there is


still in the medical office building plenty that lauds the past. A small chapel right off the lobby speaks to the faith of Ozarks Healthcare’s founders and the compas- sionate care they strove to deliver. A few steps from there sits the cafeteria, Grill 59, so named in honor of the original West Plains Memorial Hospital constructed in 1959, a 50-bed operation that felt as daz- zling and impressive at its opening as the new building does today. And throughout, you find the resolute, pioneering spirit that launched Ozarks Healthcare and dared to dream big about the future, carried in the hearts, minds


18 | OZARKS HEALTHCARE | SUMMER 2022 Chapel


and talents of the hundreds of people who work here. “The hospital made a promise to the community that we would create some- thing special,” Reeves said. “This wasn’t something in the beginning that was easy to convince the community to do because we had several challenges we had to over- come. We had to completely close a city street. We also had to have a group of community lenders step up and write a large construction loan — seven or eight banks were involved in that. This wasn’t without risk. “But we made that promise to the com-


munity, and I think the response so far is that we’ve really delivered on that. The way this place looks and feels represents what we think we’ve become as an orga- nization. We’re not just a little rural hos- pital with a few clinics anymore. We are a thriving healthcare system.”


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