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The ED will be located on the southern edge of Springfield.

Volunteers in Medicine Christian County holds mobile clinics throughout the area.

Announced last year, a southwest Missouri educational partnership intends to boost the number of nurses and other healthcare workers. Now, a key Christian university based in the area is joining the effort and expects to attract more students.

Two major Ozarks health systems shared a rhetorical rivalry this week. After Springfield-based CoxHealth announced a new partnership with St. Louis Children’s Hospital on Tuesday, Mercy Southwest Missouri Communities responded with a written statement that Cox officials later deemed “misleading.”

The two organizations announced in November they were working together to elevate children's services in the region.

Big Springs Medical Association, which operates as Missouri Highlands Healthcare in Poplar Bluff, plans to use the funds to complete a new three story building.

In this segment of KSMU's Sense of Community Series, "Shorter Lives: Why Missouri's Life Expectancy is Dropping," we meet an Ozarks family facing a Stage IV diagnosis — and the challenges of paying for medical care. The first part of Megan Maulorico's story aired during Morning Edition early Tuesday.

In this segment of KSMU's Sense of Community Series, "Shorter Lives: Why Missouri's Life Expectancy is Dropping," we meet an Ozarks family facing a Stage IV diagnosis — and the challenges of paying for medical care. The second part of Megan Maulorico's story airs during All Things Considered on Tuesday afternoon.

Jack McGee, business and economic development reporter at the Springfield Daily Citizen, joins KSMU's Gregory Holman to talk about his recent reporting on 2,000 job vacancies across CoxHealth and Mercy.

McDonald County, Missouri, is home to many immigrant groups that have moved into the county in the last twenty years. These groups include Hispanic, Somali, Burmese, Sudanese and numerous others. And while these groups do not overlap culturally, they do share one thing - language acts as a barrier to access when it comes to their health.