About Us
Conveniently found in several cities across the Ozarks.
Administrative Team
Back Row: Paul Taylor (CEO) & Kurt Baker (Assistant Administrator Facility Ops)
Middle Row: Alexis Brown (Assistant Administrator Administrative), Kandis Pendley (Assistant Administrator HR) & Todd Lutes (Assistant Administrator Clinics)
Front Row: Karla Myers (Assistant Administrator Quality & Patient Care), Marilyn Lyons (Director of Nursing) & Janet Taylor (CFO)
Ozarks Community Hospital and Clinics are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare and preventive services to our patients in an atmosphere of compassion, respect, and dignity, with a commitment to care for the underserved and to improve access to care.
Ozarks Community Hospital of Springfield ("OCH") is a 45-bed acute care facility located in Springfield, Missouri, just off Interstate 44. The hospital is fully accredited by the American Osteopathic Association's Healthcare Facility Accreditation Program and has a medical staff of over 80 physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, psychologists and other allied health professionals. Specialties include family practice, internal medicine, gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, general surgery, oral surgery, pediatrics, pulmonology, podiatry, and psychiatry. Having grown from an initial support staff of 65 in 2000, the hospital's current staff consists of 600 full and part time employees.
Ozarks Community Hospital formerly operated as Doctors Hospital of Springfield, the registered business name of SGOH Acquisition, Inc, a private, for-profit corporation owned by a group of local physicians. The hospital employs or contracts with approximately 50 physicians on a full or part-time basis. In addition providing inpatient and outpatient patient care, many of the physicians associated with OCH provide continuing care for patients in area nursing homes, collectively providing care for approximately 2,500 nursing home patients.
The hospital campus is located at the intersection of National and Evergreen in northern Springfield. National Avenue is one of Springfield's major north-south corridors. National might well be called "Hospital Road." Four hospital facilities have a National Avenue address: Ozarks Community Hospital, St. John's, Cox Walnut Lawn (previously Community Hospital) and Cox South. Evergreen, running parallel with and immediately adjacent to the highway, is essentially a "service" road for Interstate 44, connecting the hospital to the busy interchange of I-44 and Glenstone, and the usual assortment of national chain motels and restaurants.
In addition to the hospital facility located on the main campus in Springfield, Missouri, Ozarks Community Hospital operates an outpatient facility in the Nixa/Ozark area on Highway 14. The facility, doing business as OCH Christian County Clinic, is home to hospital emergency, radiology and laboratory departments, as well as more than a dozen hospital-based physician clinics. Ozarks Community Hospital also owns rural health clinics in Rogersville and Mt. Vernon and a satellite hospital clinic in Webb City. OCH has reopened a critical access hospital in Gravette, AR. OCH also operates provider-based clinics in Springfield: OCH Primrose Clinic (Family Practice & COPD Clinic) and Springfield North Pediatrics.
The hospital facility is organized to provide easy access. All outpatient services are available to patients on the ground floors, a short walk from the exterior. Inpatient services are organized into two units: medical-surgical and geriatric psychiatry. Both units are located on the same wing of the hospital. The medical-surgical unit has 26 beds staffed and available for use. The geriatric psychiatry program, operating under the trade name "Resolutions," is a separate secure unit consisting of 10 beds. A description of the services offered by Ozarks Community Hospital can be found here.
Paul Taylor, CEO
Paul Taylor became the CEO and hospital administrator in June 2000. He has served in the capacity of general counsel for the hospital beginning in 1991 through the present. He graduated in1978 from Dartmouth College, with an A.B. in English Literature; obtained a Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1981; completed course work for the Ph.D. in literature in 1984; obtained a J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1987; and worked in the private practice of law from 1987 through 1999.