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Welcome Babies: McCune Brooks Brings Forth Spradling Birthing Center By Carole Liston As a level one unit, McCune Brooks handles healthy, normal births, and refers sick or extremely premature babies to level two and three units in other regional hospitals. “We are building relationships with several hospitals that offer these advanced services. If we have a baby or mommy in trouble, we can stabilize them and transfer them to a level two or three nursery nearby in minutes,” Phebus said. In addition to the Spradling Birthing Unit, a Visiting Physicians Clinic has been established, with medical experts in Rheumatology, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Urology and Gastroenterology practicing up to three days a week at McCune Brooks facilities. “The physicians servicing this clinic are outstanding,” Barlet said. “Some are respected, published writers in their fields, others have won many awards. The fact that they are holding clinic in Carthage means the people we serve do not have to travel to receive excellent care. We are so excited about this.” Dr. Mark Jarek and Dr. Anne Winkler will see Rheumatology patients, Dr. Thomas B. Coy will do Thoracic/Vascular Surgery, Dr. Roger Schoenfield will handle Urology patients, and Dr. Larry Deffenbaugh will see patients with problems in gastroenterology. Clinic doctors have noted that the diagnostic technology available at McCune Brooks is superior to that which they have used even in much larger markets. “The Digital Imaging mammogram, for example, has already detected an early cancer in a local woman that would have been previously overlooked,” Barlet said. “The patient involved was advanced by at least a year in treatment, improving her chances of recovery.” The hospital facility, with its fountain and stream that pumps 30,000 gallons per hour through a courtyard the length of the entire building, supports the hospital's healing philosophy. “Rooms almost all have courtyard views, and the ones that don’t see the courtyard have lakeside views in back. Water is very peaceful and has a healing effect,” Barlet said. “It’s a very pleasant place. We’ve been told by the community that we finally have a building that matches the quality of our staff.” Bob Copeland, CEO of McCune Brooks, puts it this way: “It was our goal to create a total healing environment in the new hospital, not just a place to house sick people. We wanted it to meet the needs of mind, body and soul. In evidence-based medicine, it has been proven that patients in private rooms with little or no noise, who have the ability to choose artwork and look at nature, have much better medical outcomes. The new building will encompass all of those healing aspects.” 
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