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Help for You at Home
Welcome to the Oxford HealthCare website. As the leading home care provider in southwest Missouri, Oxford HealthCare serves patients of all ages, from infants to seniors in the comfort of home. Whatever your situation – patient or physician, family or friend – Oxford can help you.
Since we provide an ever-growing list of services, we encourage you to explore our site. Whatever your needs, now or in the future, you’ll discover Oxford is your caring, professional resource for anything involving care in the home.
If at any time you have questions, please call us. We take pride in offering a personal "One-Call Solution" to anyone needing help or answers regarding home care. A specially trained Care Coordinator will listen to you, answer your questions and make recommendations.
Thank you for considering Oxford Healthcare. We’re bringing health care home and keeping families together.
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Oxford News
Joplin Business Journal Names Oxford Aide a Health Care Hero
The Joplin Business Journal recently named Oxford In-Home Aide Lisa Barber a Health Care Hero for her excellence and commitment in caregiving and for making a significant impact on the quality of health care. Lisa received the award at a ceremony on March 26 in Joplin.
The winner in the Health Care Provider category, Barber received recognition for delivering standard-setting care to her patients and members of the community. During a severe ice storm, she cared for her patients on schedule and stayed in close proximity to them by living in her van for two weeks, despite having sustained a back injury from a falling tree limb. Last year, she saved a motorcycle accident victim from leg amputation by providing first aid, and, another day, delivered a baby for a neighbor of an Oxford patient.
The annual competition, which has seven categories, recognizes and honors health care excellence and innovation, educates the business community about outstanding health care accomplishments, and encourages emulation of the honorees.
KOLR-10 Spotlights Oxford On "Tom's Ozarks Marketplace"
Thurs., March 13, at 9 a.m. KOLR's Tom Trtan showcased Oxford HealthCare on "Tom's Ozarks Marketplace," the area's first local broadcast television home shopping program. Trtan and Oxford's President Karen Thomas and Vice President of Community Relations Cheryl Fitch joined in a lively conversation highlighting the agency's standards-setting, innovative programs that help people of all ages remain independent at home. Once every other month from March through January 2009, the weekly Thursday morning show will also spotlight specific Oxford services such as Lifeline medical alert, telemonitoring and hospice. Previous shows can be accessed at OzarksFirst.com under Tom's Ozarks Marketplace.
Oxford Named Best Home Health Care Agency
For the sixth consecutive year, the Springfield News-Leader has named Oxford HealthCare as the "Best Home Health Care Agency" in its "Best of the Ozarks" readers' survey. Results for 2007 were announced in February 2008, and Oxford is the only home care agency to receive the award since the inception of the poll.
"We are thankful for our dedicated employees who make such a difference in the lives of others and for the many people who voted for us," says Oxford President Karen Thomas. "Oxford appreciates the News-Leader's 'Best of the Ozarks' vote and is committed to continuing a thirty-plus year tradition of excellence."
Ribbon Cutting Marks Expansion of Oxford's Hospice Program
Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce ambassadors, Oxford representatives and visitors gathered at Oxford's Joplin office for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tues., Feb. 26, in recognition of the recent expansion of Oxford's Hospice program in Jasper, Newton, Dade, Lawrence, and Barry counties, including Monett, Mo. The new program is designed to meet the special needs of area patients and families who are facing a life-threatening illness. Oxford President Karen Thomas presented remarks at the ceremony, where refreshments were served.
Oxford's team of highly qualified professionals is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of patients and families, especially at a time when illness limits life expectancy. Hospice services include pain and symptom management, skilled nursing care, bereavement counseling, personal care and housekeeping assistance and provision of medical equipment, supplies and medications.
HomeCare Innovations Cover Story Features Oxford CEO
The cover story for the premiere January/February 2008 issue of HomeCare Innovations, a nationally distributed magazine published for the home care industry, features Oxford President Karen Thomas and her pioneering work in telemedicine.
The article relates how Thomas and Oxford have taken telemonitoring into new territory--Medicaid and private insurance coverage. Under Thomas' leadership, Oxford introduced telemonitoring technology to southwest Missouri and to Missouri's Medicaid program with dramatic outcomes. Telemonitoring reduces unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency room visits by up to half and thereby also decreases health care costs.
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Awards & Achievements
Click here to view Oxford Healthcare's awards and achievements.