Ozarks Healthcare to offer Free Athletic Physicals for Area Students May 23
Ozarks Healthcare will offer free athletic physicals for student athletes entering grades 7 - 12 in the 2023 - 2024 school year from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 23, at Ozarks Healthcare Orthopedics and Spine located on the second floor of Ozarks Healthcare's main entrance (Medical Office Building) at 1100 Kentucky Ave. in West Plains. Local physicians, family nurse practitioners, and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) will conduct the physicals.
Student athletes will check in on the second floor of the main entrance. Once checked in, students will be directed to the appropriate location to complete physicals.
Free athletic physicals will also be offered at all of Ozarks Healthcare’s clinics surrounding West Plains for area students by appointment effective immediately through the remainder of the 2022 – 2023 school year. To make an appointment for your child’s physical, simply call any of Ozarks Healthcare’s clinics in Alton, Gainesville, Mountain Grove, Mountain View, Thayer, Winona, and Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. Contact and location information can be found on Ozarks Healthcare’s website at www.OzarksHealthcare.com.
All students receiving a physical are required to submit the signed consent/medical history form linked at https://www.ozarkshealthcare.com/about-us/for-community/ and provide current insurance information from a parent or legal guardian at the time of physicals.
Ozarks Healthcare is a not-for-profit health system that serves more than 160,000 residents across south-central Missouri and northern Arkansas. With its main campus residing in West Plains, Missouri, the health system offers a full spectrum of healthcare for all ages through its 114-bed hospital, behavioral health, therapies, pharmacies, rehabilitation, and home care services, along with specialty and family medicine clinics. Ozarks Healthcare has rural locations across an eight-county service area and is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.
