Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains, Mo., is a non-profit, acute-care hospital serving an 11-county area in south central Missouri and north central Arkansas.
Here are 10 things to know about Ozarks Medical Center.
1. David M. Zechman serves as CEO.
2. Kim Thompson serves as CFO.
3. The hospital has 114 beds.
4. The hospital has 896 total employees.
5. In 2011, the hospital performed 1,200 inpatient surgeries, 2,200 outpatient surgeries, 400 births, 48,200 outpatient visits and had 19,500 non-admitted emergency room visits and 4,700 admitted emergency room visits.
6. In 2011, the hospital recorded $276.4 million in gross charges and $1.75 million in net income, according to the American Hospital Directory.
7. The hospital received a Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades in 2013.
8. Ozarks Medical Center, then called West Plains Memorial Hospital, opened in 1959. The 42-bed hospital then underwent several major expansions in the following years. In 1985, the board of trustees, recognizing that the growing hospital served more than the West Plains area, changed the name to Ozarks Medical Center.
9. More than 3,000 people attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on April 30, 1959.
10. The board of directors, made up of physicians and community members, are all volunteers.
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Here are 10 things to know about Ozarks Medical Center.
1. David M. Zechman serves as CEO.
2. Kim Thompson serves as CFO.
3. The hospital has 114 beds.
4. The hospital has 896 total employees.
5. In 2011, the hospital performed 1,200 inpatient surgeries, 2,200 outpatient surgeries, 400 births, 48,200 outpatient visits and had 19,500 non-admitted emergency room visits and 4,700 admitted emergency room visits.
6. In 2011, the hospital recorded $276.4 million in gross charges and $1.75 million in net income, according to the American Hospital Directory.
7. The hospital received a Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades in 2013.
8. Ozarks Medical Center, then called West Plains Memorial Hospital, opened in 1959. The 42-bed hospital then underwent several major expansions in the following years. In 1985, the board of trustees, recognizing that the growing hospital served more than the West Plains area, changed the name to Ozarks Medical Center.
9. More than 3,000 people attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on April 30, 1959.
10. The board of directors, made up of physicians and community members, are all volunteers.
If you have additional information you'd like included on the hospital featured above, or would like to recommend a hospital to be profiled in the future, please contact Lindsey Dunn, editor in chief, Becker's Hospital Review at ldunn@beckershealthcare.com.