Health Care

(Joplin, MO) – Marilyn Alley is a former elementary school principal who wants others to learn from her experience with coronary artery disease (CAD). “My parents both had high cholesterol but lived into their late […]

(Joplin, MO) — Mercy is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark McNemar, a longtime orthopedic surgeon in the Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas communities, has been named the permanent president of Mercy Clinic Joplin. Dr. […]

(Joplin, MO) — Comer Parks walks a treadmill for up to forty minutes, three days a week, as part of his cardiac rehabilitation after having a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure at Freeman Health […]

Learn about what’s new in local healthcare with Freeman Health System’s newsletter, Freeman in a Flash. Read about important changes to express drug testing at OccuMed, the Galentine’s Sip & Shop event, the #WalkJoplin initiative, and much more below. Freeman […]

(Joplin, MO) – Freeman Health System recognizes that many rural communities are underserved when it comes to the number of primary care doctors. According to data published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the […]

(Joplin, MO) – Kate Spencer, a 43-year-old mother of four, went into her kitchen Thanksgiving morning to prepare for a day of baking turkey, but as she started to drink her first cup of coffee, a […]

(Joplin, MO) – When he was a football player at the University of Southern Florida, Dr. Kevin Christian, Freeman General & Vascular Surgery, had several encounters with orthopaedic surgeons, steering his interest in medicine toward […]