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The Ozarks Healthcare Foundation invites all past, present, and interested Ozarks Healthcare volunteers to attend a luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at noon at the West Plains Country Club. A presentation featuring a hospital expansion update and mobile mammography unit campaign will be featured. Spouses, friends, and family of volunteers are also welcome to attend.

Ozark Marketing Company has made a donation of $500 to the Ozarks Healthcare Foundation’s fundraising initiative for a mobile mammography unit. The funds will be used to help with costs associated with the purchase of a mobile mammography unit to help make routine screenings more accessible for women who might not otherwise have access to this service.

Following a lower census of COVID-19 patients, Ozarks Healthcare is updating its visitor restrictions, effective immediately. Beginning Thursday, Oct. 14, each patient admitted to Ozarks Healthcare’s hospital will be permitted two visitors (18 years and older) per day during visiting hours. Visiting hours will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visitors will be screened at their point of entry and asked to wear a mask. Each visitor will be required to remain in the patient’s room at all times. This includes Emergency Department patients.

BÜRO Office Supply of West Plains recently gifted new massage chairs to Ozarks Healthcare’s staff to offer encouragement and relief. The chairs are available for staff to use in an employee rejuvenation area located in Ozarks Healthcare’s hospital.

Ozarks Healthcare At Home: Hospice recently honored Robert Littles of Alton, Missouri, for his service in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War with a “We Honor Veterans” ceremony. Littles served as a welder during his term of service. Littles and his wife Ruth Ann have been married since 1994 and have six children, 16 grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren.

The Ozarks Healthcare Behavioral Health Center (BHC) is starting a Veterans Peer Support Group for former and current military members. The group is being hosted to help effectively address the needs of the veteran, National Guard, and reservist communities. A relaxed and confidential environment will be provided for those attending in hopes of encouraging past and current transitional experiences to be shared with other veterans.

To keep its community safe ahead of flu season, Ozarks Healthcare will hold a flu vaccine clinic at its family medicine clinic in Gainesville, Missouri, on Monday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. to noon. Ozarks Healthcare Gainesville is located at 37 Medical Drive.

Great Rivers Distributing Co., Inc., has made a donation of $5,000 to the Ozarks Healthcare Foundation’s fundraising initiative for a mobile mammography unit. The funds will be used to help with costs associated with the purchase of a mobile mammography unit to help make routine screenings more accessible for women who might not otherwise have access to this service.