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...
Prim retires after 12 years on Cox Monett Hospital’s Community Advisory Board
June 25, 2020Jack Prim, who is credited with helping secure fundraising dollars to build a $42 million replacement hospital in Monett, recently retired from Cox Monett Hospital’s Community Advisory Board. Prim served on the volunteer board from 2008 through 2020....
