Dr. Renee Thai Joins Mercy

Dr. Renee Thai joins Dr. Larry Seals at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, KS to create a powerful team for women's health services.  With expanded hours and services, Dr. Thai and Dr. Seals are a duo that is ready to assist with women's healthcare needs from preconceptual counseling, and menstrual disorders to incontinence procedures, pelvic organ prolapse and menopausal counseling.  Various minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries are also performed at Mercy Health Center.  More

Arthritics in Action

Mercy Health for Life personal trainer, Rich Wallace, has been named by the Arthritis Foundation as an Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program Instructor.

A select group of healthcare professionals and personal trainers in Kansas have received this training and certification. Wallace is the only certified instructor based in Bourbon County and servicing Linn, Allen, Neosho and Miami County area.   More

Pleasanton Family Practice First in Kansas to Offer Instant Medication Dispensing Machine

Dr. Jay Allen, primary care physician with Pleasanton Family Practice located in Pleasanton, KS, announces the addition of cutting edge technology to provide patients added access and convenience in filling medication prescriptions.

Patients receive medication at point of care rather than spending time traveling to and from a pharmacy. Access to pharmacy services is particularly difficult for theses patients with transportation barriers and during evenings, weekends and holidays.  More

Area Women Unite to for Women in Philanthropy

A novel approach to helping to meet health care needs in the area is being addressed by a newly formed group call Women in Philanthropy (WIP).

Women in Philanthropy, a program of Mercy Health Center Foundation, is an organization open to all women who support the work of Mercy and recognize that women as donors have the capability of making an impact on health care in the community. Plans were announced last spring to organize the group and currently 21 women have made the decision to become charter members of Women in Philanthropy.  More