North Sunflower Medical Center family

2018 Year in Review

By Robyn Marlow

Looking back, 2018 was another big year for North Sunflower Medical Center. As things have grown around Ruleville, our little North Sunflower family continues to blossom – ready to meet the needs of this vibrant community.

New Faces

In addition to our NSMC Med Spa growing to include a bunch of new services, we were excited to bring on a raft of exceptional health care professionals:

  • Dr. Ray Rodriguez, MD, JD, MPH, MBA – Director of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
  • Megan Flint, FNP-C — Sunflower Rural Health Clinic
  • Jess Hodnett, MSN, FNP-BC, APRN — Sunflower Rural Health Clinic
  • Dr. Degail Hadley, DO — Sunflower Rural Health Clinic
  • And Dr. Nicholas Jew, Hand Specialist, joined our team through our partnership with MS Sports Medicine
  • As well as dozens of other valuable members of our hospital and professional services teams.

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Awards & Honors

Our exciting growth is getting noticed. In 2018, the Delta Business Journal’s Best of the Best named the NSMC Pharmacy the Best Pharmacy.  The Sunflower Eye Station was named Best Eye Care Professionals.  And the Sunflower Rural Clinic was named Best Rural Clinic. Federal Communications Commissioner Brenden Carr visited North Sunflower to discuss the future of telemedicine in rural areas. And physical therapist Carmen Cooper-Oguz was named the UMMC Alumni of the year.

North Sunflower Medical Center Aster Awards

For those of us inside the North Sunflower family, we wished Judy Simmons, Brenda Smith, and Henry Lewellyn off to a very happy retirement. We were proud of Alice Pyles, our NSMC Leader of the Year; Bret Willingham, our First Class Service STAR of the Year; and Kimberly Eastland, honoree of the first-ever Billy Marlow Award of Excellence.

Lip Sync Challenge

Our Ruleville PD LipSync Challenge video reached over 275,000 people!!! Watch it again below.

Looking Ahead

We have big ideas brewing for 2019.  We have plans to expand several critical service areas and look forward to continuous improvement in our patient satisfaction surveys.  Ruleville is more than just a service area for us.  It’s our home.  And we are immensely proud that the people of this amazing community continue to make us their health care provider of choice for another year.