Health Care
Facilities
St.
Francois County offers residents a comprehensive assortment of
modern, efficient health care services with three hospitals, 30
skilled care nursing facilities and residential care facilities,
a state-operated mental health treatment center, and a private
alcohol and drug treatment center.
Mineral Area Regional Medical
Center
Mineral
Area Regional Medical
center, 1212 Weber Road, Farmington,
Missouri, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in
2002, has a rich history in the health care field.
The 145-bed acute care facility is an independently owned
and operated not-for-profit hospital, governed by a local board
of trustees.
Among
the specialties offered by the hospital are general surgery,
family practice, anesthesiology, internal medicine, pathology,
radiology, podiatry, neurology, dentistry, psychiatry, oncology,
radiation therapy, obstetrics, gynecology, ophthalmology,
orthopedics, urology, and ear, nose and throat treatment.
The
hospital offers the services of a skilled nursing center for
medical, surgical rehabilitation, a cardiac-rehabilitation
program, a state-of-the-art equipped physical therapy center,
and a children’s haven program for physically/sexually abused
children or those who have been traumatized.
The center’s medical imaging department offers an open side
MRI, a state-of-the-art multislice General Electric lightspeed
scanner, and a bone densitometry program.
The mammography equipment is the dedicated low-patient
dose General Electric DMR accredited by the American College of
Radiology. The
nuclear medicine department is equipped with a
dual head camera with spect imaging capabilities.
Mineral Area Regional Medical Center also operates
Mineral Area Pharmacy and MARMC Home Health Services.
Parkland Health Center
Parkland Health Center
came into existence in November, 1992,
with the merger of Bonne Terre Hospital and the Farmington
Community Medical Center. Parkland
Health Center operates facilities located in Bonne Terre and
Farmington.
Parkland
Health Center–Farmington is a member of BJC HealthCare. Accredited by JCAHO, the facility is located at 1101 West
Liberty Street in Farmington.
The main campus includes a four-story medical office
building, a retail pharmacy, and an ancillary services wing
which houses the cafeteria and other support services.
Other services include an up-to-date maternity department
with board certified OB/GYN’s and a wide variety of pre- and
post-natal classes; pediatric services; a state-of-the-art
surgical unit; a CAP certified laboratory; a radiology unit
complete with CT scan, MRI, mammogram, nuclear medicine,
ultrasound,
radiography, angiography, and on-site radiologists.
The Parkland Huckstep Center offers cardiac and pulmonary
out-patient rehabilitation with a complete monitored exercise
and education program with trained staff; cardiopulmonary
services including EKG stress testing; out-patient surgery;
physical, occupational, and speech therapy; in-patient dialysis;
a 24-hour, physician staffed emergency room; and an express care
service through the emergency room.
Parkland Health Center–Bonne Terre is a critical access
hospital. Located
at 7245 Raider Road, just off Highway 67, the facility opened in
1995. The building
includes medical office space; 24-hour, physician staffed
emergency room services; out-patient oncology services; a full
service sleep lab; laboratory; radiology services, including
mammography; and physical specialists in cardiology, ear, nose
and throat, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedics/surgery,
pulmonary medicine and urology.
A heliport is also on site for transporting patients when
necessary.
Parkland also provides out-patient physical, occupational and
speech therapy; and out-patient renal dialysis services at the
Professional Services Building located at 301 West Liberty in
Farmington. The
Adult Well Life Center, which promotes a healthy lifestyle, is
located at 118 East School Street in Bonne Terre.
St. Francois County
Health Center
The St. Francois County Health
Center, located in Park Hills, is
a tax-supported health resource which is available and
accessible to all the residents of the County.
The Health Center provides a variety of health services to the
residents of the County which include a free immunization
clinic; free flu immunization clinics annually; sexually
transmitted disease clinic; environmental health services; blood
sugar and cholesterol testing; blood pressure checks; HIV
counseling and testing site; registrar for births and deaths;
communicable disease follow-up; HIV care coordination; WIC
program; well-women care, which includes family planning,
pregnancy testing and counseling; nurse consultation; day-care
training; lead screening and follow-up; CPR instruction and
tuberculosis testing and treatment.
