Direct Line from Steve Edwards for 7/2/2020
July 2, 2020CoxHealth now offers high-risk prenatal care via telemedicine Mothers facing high-risk pregnancies in rural areas of the Ozarks now have a new way to receive care closer to home. A telemedicine option, connecting CoxHealth’s rural hospitals to its R...
CoxHealth now offers high-risk prenatal care via telemedicine
June 30, 2020Mothers facing high-risk pregnancies in rural areas of the Ozarks now have a new way to receive care closer to home. A telemedicine option, connecting CoxHealth’s rural hospitals to its Regional Perinatal Center in Springfield, allows patients to be ...
Working well together: Inspired by teamwork in the ED
June 29, 2020During the temporary closures, Angie Owens loved serving as a PPE monitor in the ED so much, she didn't want to leave.She wrote a note to Jeff Hawkins, VP of clinical services, about the experience: "What a phenomenal staff we have! I have thoroughly e...
Special delivery: Baby born on sidewalk outside Cox Branson Urgent Care
June 29, 2020Skarlette Ruiz smiles as she recaps her son Paulo’s unusual birth story: An urgent arrival on the Urgent Care sidewalk, just steps away from Cox Branson’s front doors. “I live about an hour away, so I was really paying attention to the time between ...
Direct Line with Steve Edwards for 6/26/2020
June 26, 2020COVID patient video story Last month, I shared the story of a young patient with COVID-19 who had an emergency C-section and was on a mechanical ventilator. The patient was the first at CoxHealth to receive the drug Remdesivir. The patient, Hanna Siem...
