Inside MMH: The Sales Tax As we continue our series on taking the community inside our walls and our operations, today we discuss the one-quarter-cent sales tax speculation. Few subjects involving McCurtain Memorial Hospital have created more confusion than the one-quarter-cent county sales tax. For years, people have repeated claims that the hospital receives millions of dollars in taxpayer money, that the hospital controls those funds, or that receiving the sales tax makes

INSIDE MMH: Obstetrics The Service We Wish We Still Had — and the Reality Behind Rural Labor & Delivery There is one question we hear from our community perhaps more than any other when discussing services at McCurtain Memorial Hospital: Why don’t we deliver babies anymore? It is a fair question. More importantly, it comes from a place we understand. For families who have welcomed children at this hospital, for mothers who remember giving birth here, and for generations who h

The Ground Beneath Our Hospital: The Joplin Family, the Land, and More Than 50 Years of Healthcare

"A hospital's greatest asset isn't its building. It isn't its equipment. It isn't even the incredible people who walk its halls each day. A hospital's greatest asset is its mission, because a mission is what gives purpose to every decision, every sacrifice, and every life it touches."

"The truth is that McCurtain Memorial Hospital doesn't fit neatly into any of those categories, and understanding why requires us to take another short journey through history."

"Every hospital has a beginning. Ours didn't begin with bricks, concrete, or steel. It began with people who refused to accept that their neighbors deserved anything less than hope."

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