The pulmonologist also oversees the TCMH Sleep Studies Laboratory – a two-bed sleep studies laboratory that operates nightly.
TCMH’s Hutcheson Pharmacy is the retail pharmacy owned by the hospital. It is open Monday through Friday, and it is known for providing fast, personalized service without a wait. Hutcheson Pharmacy is also part of the low-cost 340-B drug prescription program available for patients without insurance coverage that use TCMH physicians or mid-level providers.
TCMH Hospice of Care provides palliative care for terminally ill patients in Texas County and the surrounding area. Hospice services can be provided in a patient’s home or in the hospital, depending upon the patient’s specific needs. Hospice of Care offers care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay for the services.
TCMH Home Health of the Ozarks serves a 40-mile radius from Houston, providing in-home care ranging from nursing to physical therapy to assistance with activities of daily living. Home Health of the Ozarks and Hospice of Care services are available with a physician’s referral.
The hospital has five clinics with physicians that specialize in general surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, pulmonology, internal medicine and family medicine. Mid-level providers – nurse practitioners, a physician assistant and a nurse midwife – also provide complementary care in the clinics.
The TCMH Medical Complex is in Houston and features internal medicine specialist Jonathan Beers, DO. Holly Atterberry, a family nurse practitioner, works with Beers in caring for adult patients at the clinic. Christopher Baldwin, MD is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, and Tracey Arwood is a certified nurse midwife working with him in the clinic. Cory Offutt, MD is a family medicine physician that provides complete obstetrics care, too, and he sees patients of all ages for any other healthcare concerns. William Wright, MD is a family medicine physician at the clinic, and he specializes in pediatrics and women’s health. Juan Mella, MD, is a pulmonologist and sleep studies specialist seeing patients at the clinic.
The TCMH Walk In Clinic inside the Houston clinic is open Monday through Friday for patients of all ages. Nurse practitioners Atterberry, Ray Bruno, FNP and Sheena Painter, FNP see patients at the Walk In Clinic.
The TCMH Family Clinic in Licking is home to Joshua Wolfe, MD, a family medicine physician, and Whitney Young, a physician assistant. Offutt also sees patients at the Licking Clinic on a parttime basis.
Stephen Hawkins, MD, a family medicine physician, and Terry Bruno, family nurse practitioner, see patients of all ages at the TCMH Cabool Medical Clinic.
Practicing at the TCMH Mountain Grove Medical Complex is Jennifer Groner, DO, a family medicine physician that provides complete obstetrical care. Groner and Sara Openshaw, a family nurse practitioner, also see patients of all ages for any other healthcare concerns, and Arwood also provides obstetrics care in Mountain Grove two days a week.
Linda Milholen, MD is a board certified general surgeon that sees patients and provides comprehensive general surgery care through the hospital’s surgery department and the TCMH Outpatient Surgery Clinic.
Teresa Loden, MD, a board certified pediatrician, will join the TCMH Medical Complex in July 2018, and Jason Loden, MD, a general surgeon currently in residency, will join TCMH in July 2018, too.
TCMH is the largest employer in Texas County with more than 300 full-time and part-time employees. Hospital salaries and benefits are more than $15 million annually. In 2015, TCMH brought more than $14 million in federal and state funds from Medicare and Medicaid into Texas County. The hospital also paid out almost $1 million to county businesses for services and goods received by the hospital. Gross revenue at the county facility topped $65 million in 2015.
“Whether it’s for an emergency, a diagnostic service or routine healthcare, we want our hospital and clinics to be the place area residents choose for their care,” Wes Murray, chief executive officer at TCMH, said.
TCMH is an independent hospital governed by a five-person elected board of trustees.
“For over 50 years we have been a cornerstone in the community,” Murray said, “And we are planning to be here for the healthcare of future generations, too.”