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New foundation established for west service region
St. John’s Health System has established a new foundation to serve the
communities of Barry, Lawrence and Dade counties.
 Don Buchanan, long-time administrator of St. John’s Hospital – Aurora, is
the newly appointed executive director of the foundation, which is a part
of
St. John’s Foundation for Community Health. The new foundation’s offices
are housed at St. John’s Hospital – Aurora.
Buchanan will also oversee development of a proposed replacement hospital
for St. John’s Hospital - Aurora. St. John's has begun to develop plans
and determine the level of community support for a proposed replacement
hospital in Aurora on a nearby tract of land, according to St. John’s
Regional Vice President Rob Brodhead.
Buchanan says he has seen a need for a foundation in his community for
several years and is looking forward to his new role.
“I have been wanting to start a health and wellness foundation for about
five or six years now. In the past, there have been so many wonderful
ideas to help our community in the areas of health and wellness, but no
funding to implement them,” Buchanan says. “I’m really looking forward to
the good things we’ll be able to do with this foundation.”
In addition to the new foundation, St. John’s has local foundations at St.
John’s Hospital - Lebanon, St. John’s Hospital - Berryville and St. John’s
St. Francis Hospital in Mountain View. Establishment of local community
health foundations across the Sisters of Mercy Health System is one of the
Mercy organization’s strategic initiatives.
St. John’s Hospital floors to be renumbered
Construction for the new emergency trauma center and outpatient diagnostic
center additions to St. John’s Hospital will be complete by fall. Before
the new ETC opens, St. John’s will resolve a long-standing source of
confusion for patients, visitors and staff by renumbering the floors of
St. John’s Hospital, which will eliminate having both a ground floor and a
first floor.
“With the addition of the new building, there is a need to review and
implement a good way-finding system for the hospital,” says Steve Kemp,
St. John’s Hospital vice president. “Having a ground floor and a first
floor has been a long-standing source of confusion for our patients,
visitors and co-workers. We’ve chosen this time to address the problem.”
The new numbering system will involve dividing the hospital into sections
and designating them with letters instead of with directional identifiers.
Patient rooms will be identified with a number and the letter of the
hospital section they reside in.
Hospitality reps assist patients, visitors on St. John’s campus
St. John’s Hospital now employs hospitality representatives to pick up
visitors from the parking lot in a tram, deliver them to the door of the
building and direct them where they need to go once inside.
“A way-finding committee made up of St. John’s co-workers researched a
number of ways to improve the patient and visitor experience when they
come to our campus. Having friendly folks available to help people find
their way when they arrive at St. John’s, especially during construction
for our Master Sites and Facilities Plan, seemed like an excellent way to
do that,” says Julie Jones, vice president of St. John’s Marketing and
Customer Service.
The greeters’ first post is at the National Avenue Medical Building, north
of the hospital.
“We thought starting this service at the National Avenue Medical Building
made the most sense because of the patients who must walk in from the
parking lot to get to St. John’s Clinic – Cardiology and St. John's Clinic
– Cardiovascular Surgery,” Jones says. She added that St. John’s Clinic –
Maternal/Fetal Medicine is also located in the National Avenue Medical
Building and its patients – high-risk pregnant women – will also benefit
from the service.
New Nixa clinic to house variety of specialties, pharmacy
About this time next year, St. John’s will open a three-story,
60,000-square-foot clinic on an 18-acre tract of land in west Nixa near
Espy Elementary School. St. John’s Clinic – Nixa will house a variety of
specialties to serve the residents of Christian County and has the
capability to be expanded to 100,000 square feet.
"It is important for St. John's Clinic to expand services in Christian
County because the county is one of the fastest-growing parts of our
region," says Donn Sorensen, senior vice president and chief operating
officer for St. John's Clinic. “The Nixa facility will be patient and
visitor friendly, offering a wide array of specialties and services,
including urgent care, internal medicine, lab, pediatrics, physical
therapy, cardiac rehab, obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, pharmacy,
optical shop and a coffee shop.” The new clinic will also house a
pharmacy.
The St. John’s Clinic – Nixa project is part of St. John's five-year
Master Sites and Facilities Plan.
Clinics relocate to new St. John’s Surgery Center
St. John’s Clinic – Ear, Nose & Throat, St. John’s Clinic – Head & Neck
Surgery, St. John’s Clinic – Orthopedic Specialists,
St. John’s Clinic – Dermatology and St. John’s Clinic – Eye Specialists
have relocated to St. John’s new 216,000-square-foot surgery center and
medical office building at the corner of National and Seminole on St.
John’s main campus. The clinics joined St. John’s Spine Center and St.
John’s Pain Management Center, which opened in the surgery center in
January.
St. John’s Clinic – Plastic Surgery will also relocate to the new surgery
center later this year. The facility also houses an optical shop, eight
state-of-the-art outpatient surgery suites and the St. John’s Skyview Café
on the sixth floor.
St. John’s expands urgent care, eye services in region
St. John’s Clinic - Eye Specialists has opened a fourth location in the
Lebanon Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Building at 331 Hospital Drive in
Lebanon. Services include ophthalmology, optometry and an optical shop,
which will be
St. John’s third optical shop.
Cylinda Butler, O.D., provides optometric services Monday through Friday
and James Gessler, MD, MPH, provides ophthalmology services Wednesdays at
the new office.
St. John’s Clinic - Eye Specialists, has eight ophthalmologists and four
optometrists in two locations in Springfield at Smith-Glynn-Callaway and
St. John’s Surgery Center. Wendell Scott, M.D., travels to St. John’s
Hospital – Aurora twice a week to provide eye services there.
New Branson urgent care clinic
St. John’s now offers urgent care services at a second Branson location,
the medical building located at 1065 Highway 248. Hours of operation are
10 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. St. John’s Branson-area physicians
rotate through the clinic to provide care. The new clinic’s phone number
is 417-336-6011.
“We found Highway 248 to be a great location for these services because of
its proximity to Highway 65. Highway 248 is considered Branson’s Medical
Mile,” says St. John’s Clinic Regional Director Lynda Luria. “The opening
of the urgent care, plus St. John’s Clinic – Branson – Internal Medicine
and St. John’s Clinic – Branson – Cancer and Hematology in the same
building, really gives St. John’s an opportunity to serve the residents of
Branson’s north side.”
St. John’s has offered urgent care services at 1940 Highway 165 in Branson
for about three years.
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