Stewart Family Front: Matthew


Left to right in back: Lauren, Melissa, Cary, Natalie


Front: Ruth Stewart, 106 years old Left to Right in back: Junior Stewart, Bonnie Hile, David Stewart


Today, the campus is dominated by the gleaming new medical office building, a spectacular structure that puts even the usu- ally chatty Junior nearly at a loss for words. As one who can remember the days when healthcare was doled out from a small, pri- vate space downtown, seeing where Ozarks Healthcare is today – in part due to his fam- ily – is an awesome experience. “It’s been almost overwhelming,


“When they began the construction of


the hospital, I was the one that dug the first


footings. Every phase or expansion that they had, I was involved, doing all


their site work for them.” - Junior -


particularly with this last phase that we just finished,” he said. “Ten years ago, 15 years ago, you would not have ever com- prehended what we have now. We’ve got our surgical unit, and we’ve got the on- cologists there. There’s a broad base of doctors and specialists. We can do any- thing that the big mega-hospitals can do because we are a mega-hospital now. And I’m proud to be a part of it.”


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