(Joplin, MO) – Wearing traditional caps and gowns, nearly 20 students at Freeman Health System’s Freeman Learning Center will receive their graduating diplomas on Friday, July 17.
This is the Center’s fifth graduating class, and its largest with 19 children. Fourteen of the 19 children have been at the Center since they were babies or one-year-olds, according to Learn Center Director Joshua Sharp.
Freeman Health System President and Chief Executive Officer Matt Fry will hand each child his or her diploma as they cross the stage, and the students themselves will sing two songs during the ceremony.
The Learning Center opened in April 2020 and is available to children between six weeks and six years old. It offers structured play that engages children to help them grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially. Educational continuity is seamlessly provided from one age group to the next, as students move from the baby room to the one-year-old room and all the way up to the five-year-old room.
The graduates will be ready to start their first day of kindergarten in the fall.
About Freeman Health System
Locally owned and nationally recognized, Freeman Health System is a not-for-profit health system serving communities across Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas through a network of hospitals, physician clinics, outpatient locations, and specialty services. The system includes Freeman Hospital West, Freeman Hospital East, Freeman Neosho Hospital, and the Freeman Health System facilities in Bentonville, Springdale, Willow Creek, and Siloam Springs. Freeman Health System also operates Ozark Center—the region’s largest provider of behavioral health services, and offers comprehensive cancer, cardiology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, and women’s and children’s services. The system is supported by more than 7,000 employees and is the only Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in a 70-mile radius. For more information, visit freemanhealth.com.
Reference:
Kevin McClintock, Media Relations Coordinator
Freeman Health System
417.434.3458
KSMcclintock@freemanhealth.com
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