If you are experiencing a medical or mental health emergency call 9-1-1. We are always happy to serve you! To schedule an appointment, CLICK HERE. Please understand this service should be utilized in rare instances of an urgent medical need. After hours calls are handled by a messenger service, who will relay your contact information to our "on call" healthcare provider. Urgent healthcare concerns may be addressed after hours by calling 417.782.6200. We provide a "REQUEST FOR APPOINTMENT" form for Dental Patients and a real time "LIVE" scheduling option for our Medical Patients. Our Joplin Medical Clinic is OPEN LATE four days a week - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday until 07:00 p.m. Most locations stay open until 07:00 p.m., on Tuesdays, in order to serve you with a later evening option. It is located at 3230 Wisconsin Ave., Suite A in Joplin.įind more detailed information about UBS at /UBS.Each of our Clinic locations are open from 08:00 a.m. It is open 11:00 am – 9:00 pm Monday – Friday and has weekend hours of 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm on both Saturday and Sunday. UBS opens October 1, 2020, and has extended hours for those with behavioral health urgent needs. The funding for the new behavioral urgent care clinic provides for a staff of twelve to fifteen employees providing both behavioral and medical health treatment.
SAMHSA has reported a nearly 900% increase in the number of calls to its crisis hotline since last year. Isolation, anxiety, economic uncertainty and limits on in-person counseling during the pandemic have created the perfect storm for an unprecedented – and potentially deadly – mental health crisis.
The facility is funded by a reoccurring two-million-dollar federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). “This approach saves lives, reduces negative health outcomes, facilitates quality care, and promotes efficiency and cost savings.” “The goal is to treat the whole person by blending the expertise of behavioral health and primary medical care,” says Mieseler. UBS includes a multi-disciplinary team and provides a trauma-informed place to receive care, meaning it emphasizes physical, psychological and emotional safety. In addition, the mortality gap is increasing because individuals with serious mental illness have a higher prevalence of chronic medical conditions than the general population.” “Individuals experiencing mental illness often have difficulty accessing timely urgent mental healthcare. “There is a significant gap in emergency behavioral healthcare in our community,” says Vicky Mieseler, Ozark Center Chief Administrative Officer. Urgent Behavioral Solutions is one of those innovative approaches. Nearly one in five adults has a mental illness in any given year, so integrating mental health services with physical healthcare is vitally important.”
“We believe the two go hand-in-hand, and our caregivers continually look for innovative approaches to integrating mental and physical healthcare. “Ozark Center and Freeman Health System are dedicated to removing barriers between behavioral and physical health,” says Paula Baker, Freeman Health System President and Chief Executive Officer. Ozark Center Urgent Behavioral Solutions (UBS) offers an alternative to the emergency room and saves time and money for individuals 16 and up who have significant behavioral health symptoms. Ozark Center staff, Freeman Health System leaders, and state and federal politicians cut the ribbon on the first and only urgent care for behavioral health issues in the southwest Missouri region.
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