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To help its community prepare for the upcoming school year, Ozarks Healthcare will offer free athletic physicals for area student athletes from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 22, at Ozarks Healthcare Pediatrics located at 312 Kentucky Ave. in West Plains. Additional dates for physicals to be conducted for schools outlying the West Plains area have been recently added to the following schedule.

Magdy Giurgius, MBChB, MSc, FACS, general and bariatric surgeon at Ozarks Healthcare, has been selected to serve as a member of the Missouri Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Executive Council.

To help its community prepare for the upcoming school year, Ozarks Healthcare will offer free athletic physicals for area student athletes from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 22, at Ozarks Healthcare Pediatrics located at 312 Kentucky Ave. in West Plains.

Ozarks Healthcare will host a Remembrance Ceremony on Saturday, June 19, at the Missouri State University – West Plains (MSU-WP) Amphitheater to help bring closure for those who experienced loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ceremony is open to anyone who lost a loved one during a time when grieving together was difficult.

Ozarks Healthcare wishes to congratulate its latest nurse residency cohort for completion of its program. Ozarks Healthcare's Nurse Residency Program is a 12-week program for graduates of nursing school that features rotations through different departments of the hospital. Graduate nurses spent time in approximately 28 areas of our hospital over 12 weeks and are now employed by Ozarks Healthcare.

Cancer affects everyone. With nearly 17 million people living with and beyond cancer in the U.S. today – and more than 43 million cancer survivors worldwide – everyone knows someone whose life has been touched by cancer. The people working within the Ozarks Healthcare’s Cancer Treatment Center fight hard against some of the darkest forms of disease every day. At the same time, they provide some of the strongest comfort and smiles you will ever see. Why? Because they know where their patients have been. Their patients may never know it, but when some of our Cancer Treatment Center staff responds to a patient’s worried look or questions with “I understand,” they truly mean it because they are cancer survivors themselves. The following four Ozarks Healthcare Cancer Treatment Center nurses have shared part of their own cancer journeys to let you know we are here to fight with AND for you.

Ozarks Healthcare and the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO) will host a blood drive on Friday, June 18, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Willard Hunter Classroom in the Ozarks Healthcare Parkway Center at 1211 Porter Wagoner Blvd. in West Plains.

Ozarks Healthcare At Home: Hospice recently honored William Page for his service in the U.S. Army with a “We Honor Veterans” ceremony. Page served as an intelligence person for the 211st Engineer C Battalion during the Korean War. Page has five children, 18 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.