Texas County Memorial Hospital signed has a three-year contract with a family medicine physician and obstetrician.
Cory L. S. Offutt, MD, will join TCMH as a full-time employed physician in the summer of 2016 after his current residency program ends. He is a second-year resident at the family medicine residency program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Offutt grew up in Lebanon and his wife, Samantha, is from Harrison, Ark. The couple, who sought a home in a smaller community in the Ozarks, plan to relocate to Texas County next summer.
Offutt said he wanted a place to practice medicine with inpatients and outpatients from birth to the end of life, including practicing obstetrics with surgical privileges.
“Dr. and Mrs. Offutt are the type of people that would have been welcome at any hospital and community in the nation,” said Wes Murray, chief executive officer at TCMH. “We are fortunate to have recruited a physician of Dr. Offutt’s caliber, and they will be a great asset in our community.”
Offutt will be based at the TCMH Medical Complex in Houston. He also plans to provide an outreach clinic at the TCMH Mountain Grove Clinic, where TCMH does not currently have a full-time physician.
“There is something special and rewarding about practicing full spectrum family medicine,” Dr. Offutt said. “I have the opportunity to take care of pregnant moms, deliver their babies and care for those babies as they grow older.”
Tracey Arwood, CNM, currently provides obstetrical and women’s healthcare at the TCMH Mountain Grove Clinic and delivers her patients at TCMH.
“We are very pleased to be able to provide additional obstetrical services for patients in the Mountain Grove area and to provide a location that’s close to home for area patients to deliver their babies,” Murray said. “Signing Dr. Offutt to a contract is key to the hospital’s commitment to provide quality healthcare to patients throughout Texas County and the surrounding area.”
The Offutts visited TCMH as well as the Houston and Mountain Grove communities in early January.
“After visiting, we came away with a strong sense of community and family that we have not felt anywhere else we visited, and that means more to us than anything,” Offutt said.
Offutt has an undergraduate degree in cell and molecular biology from Missouri State University. He attended medical school at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Samantha Offutt is pursuing a master’s degree in graphic design.