Thu, Nov 26 2009
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Joplin hospital opens center focusing on women’s health Koelkebeck said Freeman decided to invest in women’s health-care services because the need in the area is increasing as more of the baby boomer generation takes advantage of increased services. Hutson said the Women’s Pavilion’s business was steady last year, but she expects a big jump this year in patients. She said the new health center’s digital mammography unit is already booked with 60 women a day through the middle of December.
That need for women’s health services goes beyond Joplin’s borders. Pam Barlet, director of program development and community relations for McCune-Brooks Regional Hospital in Carthage, said more women are using the hospital’s health services now than ever. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in utilization of those services in all areas: mammography, bone density, digital radiology, our new birthing unit,” Barlet said. Barlet said it’s not that women deserve special treatment in health care, but that keeping women healthy affects the health of the rest of the community. “We’ve got to keep women healthy because they are the health-care givers in their families,” she said. “As we raise the level of the awareness of health care for women, it all rolls down from there to the rest of the community. That’s why there’s a focus on women’s health.” While efforts to obtain comment from St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin were unsuccessful Monday afternoon, the hospital did list women’s health services as a major focus of the future in a statement last week. Freeman officials are looking at several options for the former Women’s Pavilion at 932 E. 34th St. They plan to use the OB/GYN offices left vacant by the move to the new center in place of an office building Freeman was planning to build in two to three years. Openings The Women’s Pavilion, the Pink Door Boutique, Women’s Healthcare Associates and Southwest Women’s Center all opened Monday to the public in Freeman’s new Women’s Health Center. OB/GYN Associates and Freeman Plastic Surgery Associates will open in the center Nov. 24, and Ozark Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Freeman Perinatology Center will open Dec. 8. 
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