P & O Care Expands South

Prosthetic and Orthotic Care is growing, and many of its new patients have been coming from areas south of St. Louis, like Washington, Jefferson, St. Genevieve, and Perry Counties. So, this provider of artificial limbs and braces has decided to open a new office across from Jefferson Memorial Hospital at 1479-D US Hwy 61, Festus, MO 63028. The new location will enable P&O Care to better serve its current patients and provide more localized service for rural Missourians who otherwise would have to travel to St. Louis. More accessible care means that patients will take a more proactive role in making sure that their devices fit safely and comfortably, and it increases the likelihood that a patient will actually wear their arm, leg, or brace—or actually fill that doctor’s order for diabetic shoes!

Fully staffed during the work week with certified prosthetists and orthotists, and equipped with a full-service fabrication laboratory, the new facility will be known as P&O’s Jefferson County Care Center. The company will also begin referring to their Missouri and Illinois locations as the St. Louis County Care Center and the St. Clair County Care Center. They will continue to operate their outfitted minivans, known as Mobile Care Units, which prosthetists and orthotists can drive to patient’s homes or nursing homes. From Festus, P&O Care will have better access to outlying towns like Potosi, De Soto, Farmington, St. Genevieve, Chester (IL), and Perryville. They will even go to Cape Girardeau.

Jim Weber, President of P&O Care, says he hopes to have the new facility operational by late July or early August. Until then, his company is willing to go the extra mile, even with gas prices as high as they are, to service the entire region south of St. Louis from their St. Louis County Care Center in Des Peres.

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