Ozarks Healthcare

Inpatient and outpatient services - inpatient admissions were 4,699; total patient days were 19,001. Inpatient services include cardiac stepdown and Medical surgical nursing floors along with a neuro-psychiatric unit as well as an obstetrics unit with 499 deliveries in the 2022 year. There were 26,362 emergency department visits, and the emergency room is open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week in order to provide emergent care to a rural area. The next closest emergency care is one hour away from the city of west plains. All other outpatient and ancillary registrations for 2022 total 82,662. Those services include, but are not limited to, laboratory, pathology, blood bank, radiology, ultrasound, mri, ct scan, nuclear medicine, mammography, pharmacy, pulmonology, rheumatology, cath lab, dermatology, endocrinology, woundcare, pain management, oncology, respiratory therapy, a sleep Center, as well as 3,285 surgeries. The objective is to continue to expand in services and through health care professionals that will provide the scope and coverage to meet the needs of the community members and others. Ozarks Medical Center provides care to a rural region of Missouri where the closest alternative for many services is an hour or more away.

Home health admissions & recertifications for the 2022 year total 581. Programs include: omc home care (health care provided to patients in their homes using skilled nurses, home health aides, rehabilitation therapists and social workers). Omc support services (homemaking, personal care, respite care, and in-home companion care), omc transitions (end-of-life care offering assistance, encouragement, and support), and omc hospice (physical, emotional and spiritual care) in the final stages of illness.

The rural health, primary care, and specialty clinics performed 117,109 clinic encounters during the 2022 year. Rural health clinics performed 80,269 encounters spread over the cities of winona, mountain view, gainesville, mountain grove, mammoth spring, thayer, alton, as well as west plains that includes a school clinic, urgent care, and pediatrics clinics. Specialty clinics include services for infectious disease, orthopedics, podiatry, general surgery, ear nose & throat, ob/gynecology, urology, heart care services, and pulmonology. Behavioral Healthcare offers services such as psychotherapy, psychological testing, case management, psycho-social rehabilitation, medication management/services, family assistance, and crisis stabilization services. Registrations for behavioral health outpatient and clinic services total 57,018 for the 2022 year with mulitple services routinely provided per registration. Services for behavioral Healthcare totaled over 155,000 encounters for the 2022 year. Rehabilitation therapy encounters totaled 217,699 for the 2022 year. Therapy services provided include occupational, speech, and physical therapy. Services are provided through the Ozarks Medical Center location along with clinic locations in the cities of winona, gainesville, thayer, alton, mountain grove, and various schools in the local communities.