St. Francois County Health Care Providers Join Mercy

Farmington, Mo. (KFMO) - A team of physicians, advanced practice providers and their staff, who have dedicated their careers to serving Farmington and the surrounding St. Francois County community, are joining Mercy. They will continue to provide excellent care and service in their existing clinics.

Clinics that will become part of the Mercy health system are Midwest Health Group, Midwest Orthopedic Group, Midwest Pain and Spine Center (including its primary care and chiropractic teams), Midwest Imaging Center, Convenient Care Farmington and Convenient Care Bonne Terre.

“Our focus has always been serving the Farmington community and providing patients the health care they need here without having to leave this community,” said Dr. Paul Moniz, a primary care physician who is joining Mercy from Midwest Health Group. “That matches up perfectly with Mercy, which was founded on and continues to serve the goal of providing care where it’s needed. Mercy will bring us resources and support to enhance the care we’re already providing.”

These clinics joined Mercy, effective Sept. 1:

• Mercy Clinic Primary Care – Farmington 555 W. Pine with Dr. Paul Moniz, Dr. Guy Roberts, and nurse practitioners Megan Bell, Zacharius Dane, Angelica Lappe and Fisher Wadlow
• Mercy Clinic Primary Care – Farmington 618 Maple Valley Drive with Dr. James Moore
• Mercy Clinic Orthopedics – Farmington 606 Maple Valley Drive with Dr. Scott Van Ness and nurse practitioner Tonya Herbst
• Mercy Clinic Spine and Pain Management – Farmington 618 Maple Valley Drive with chiropractor Dr. Stephen Orr and Dr. Tong Zhu
• Mercy Spine Care – Farmington 618 Maple Valley Drive with Dr. Michael Fan and nurse practitioner Branda Irvine
• Mercy Imaging Services – Farmington 604 Maple Valley Drive
• Mercy Integrated Medicine and Therapy Services – Farmington 618 Maple Valley Drive
• Mercy Convenient Care – Farmington 620 Maple Valley Drive with nurse practitioners Kaila Bridges, Jessica Cox, Sarah Darnell, Brandi House and Lacey Stogsdill
• Mercy Convenient Care – Bonne Terre (coming in 2026)
• Mercy will host a ribbon cutting and blessing celebration at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 12 at 555 W. Pine St. Patients and the community are invited to attend.

These new Mercy facilities are in addition to the six existing Mercy specialty clinics in Farmington:

• Mercy Clinic Cardiology – Farmington W. Pine with Dr. Omar Almousalli, Dr. Sridevi Durga, Dr. Sushruth Edla, Dr. Souheil Khoukaz, Dr. Deryk McDowell, Dr. Bassem Mikhail, Dr. Bassam Roukoz, Dr. Molly Sachdev, Dr. Justin Sheehy, and nurse practitioners Jolene Cabral, Katelyn Coleman, Blake Cory, Courtney Gray, Rachel Holland and Karen Pfitzinger
• Mercy Clinic Endocrinology – Farmington with nurse practitioner Kristen Rider
• Mercy Clinic OB/GYN – Farmington with Dr. Amanda Carroll, Dr. Catherine Hutz, Dr. Jacob Peyton and nurse practitioner Sara McAllister
• Mercy Clinic Oncology and Hematology – Farmington with Dr. Syed Hasan and Dr. Craig Siegel
• Mercy Clinic Neurology – Farmington W. Pine with Dr. Matthew Hileman
• Mercy Clinic Neurosurgery – Farmington W. Pine with Dr. Mark Rivkin and physician assistant Betty Sisco

“We’re thrilled to be growing our presence in Farmington and serving more of the community than ever before,” said Dan Eckenfels, Mercy Jefferson Communities president. “By teaming up with the Midwest group, we will be able to provide more coordinated care with a variety of specialists seeing patients in Farmington. That all starts with having a primary care team here who knows this community and understands the needs.”

Mercy will immediately make a significant investment with the installation of a new electronic health record system. Epic’s state-of-the-art software provides one health record available to all Mercy health care providers. It also offers patients the option for online appointment scheduling, convenient access to their records, online bill payment and more through the MyMercy patient portal and the MyMercy app, available through Apple App Store and Google Play.

Mercy,  one of the 15 largest U.S. health systems and named the top large system in the U.S. for excellent patient experience by NRC Health, serves millions annually with nationally recognized care and one of the nation’s largest and highest performing Accountable Care Organizations in quality and cost. Mercy is a highly integrated, multi-state health care system including 50 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies.

Mercy has over 1,000 physician practice locations and outpatient facilities, more than 5,000 physicians and advanced practitioners and more than 50,000 co-workers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In fiscal year 2024 alone, Mercy provided nearly half a billion dollars of free care and other community benefits, including traditional charity care and unreimbursed Medicaid.