Monticello Live

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Drew Memorial would like to welcome Dr. N. Lakshmi Battala, OB/GYN to our Women’s Services team.

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Local residents have reported an ongoing telephone scam that involves Caller ID “spoofing.”

This practice is a form of telemarketing that impersonates a local phone number that does not reflect the original caller location.

In this instance, Drew Memorial Health System administration has been made aware of calls to local numbers which show up on Caller ID as being from “Drew Memorial Hospital,” despite the fact that the hospital has no affiliation with the actual entity placing the call.

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Community Health Centers of Arkansas honored Mainline Health Systems executive director Allan Nichols for his service last week in Little Rock.

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L to R: State Farm Agents Brandon Smith (Lake Village), Mark Gray (Monticello), Reid Robertson (Star City), Kevin Bonnette (Pine Bluff), Joey Cathey (Warren), and Chris Bryant (Monticello) present a check for a $4,000 grant from State Farm corporate to Drew Memorial staff Jenny Guthrie, Stephanie Norris, Kristen Smith RN, Wade Smith, Jennifer Rowland RN, Jodie Efird RN, and Melodie Colwell

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Representatives from a local group attended the McGehee City Council meeting, last week, to support the possibility of a medical marijuana dispensary being located in McGehee.

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Dr. Jeffrey Reinhart was re-instated to practice by the Arkansas medical board, Thursday, following his recent suspension.

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After months of discussion and consideration of two different proposals to provide a school-based health clinic for Drew Central schools, the board voted by 3-2 margin to go with the proposal from Mainline Health Systems.

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Robert Jacobs, D.O. was selected among 35 medical directors as the Medical Director of the Year by Emergency Staffing Solutions.

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The Drew Memorial Hospital emergency room now is treating over 1000 patients/monthly, for 7 consecutive months. They also have achieved an average service time of approximately 2 hours/patient in the emergency department.

Mainline Health Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Fredy Cordova, MD to the Monticello Mainline Clinic. Dr. Cordova is a family medicine physician and has worked in the medical field for over 30 years.

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MLive has tried to confirm validity of the “rumor” of the permanent closing of Reinhart Family Healthcare, at noon today.

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Construction is currently underway on Mainline Health Services’$2 million medical clinic, on Jordan Drive, between the overpass and Scogin Drive. (more…)

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Dr. Sylvia Simon was recently sworn in by Judge Bynum Gibson, after being reappointed to the Arkansas State Medical Board by Governor Asa Hutchinson for another 6 year term.

She has been on the board since 2009.

Arkansas Business news magazine named Drew Memorial Hospital the Small Hospital of the Year at their annual Health Care Heroes luncheon in Little Rock. (more…)

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Over the last month, Drew Memorial Hospital expected to receive a few dozen “port pillows,” homemade cushions that allows cancer patients to protect their treatment ports from rubbing against seatbelts while driving in a car. (more…)