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Hedrick Medical Center is one of only two critical access hospitals in Missouri to receive a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The rating also places Hedrick in the top 15% of all hospitals nationwide.

David had bypass surgery in 1997 and thought his heart was doing well until he experienced another cardiac event out of nowhere.

Melody Unger loves to fill the world with sound. If the spirited 8-year-old isn’t singing, she’s humming, playing the drums, asking questions, or playing make-believe. But for the first two years of her life, Melody lived in silence.

Maddox was born with hereditary hearing loss. He received a cochlear implant. Watch how it changed his life.

What began as a middle-of-the-night trip to the bathroom turned into a nightmare—and then a miracle—for 83-year-old Chillicothe resident Shirley Eskew. After getting out of bed, Shirley slipped and fell. “I just hit the concrete hard,” she remembers. Things got blurry after that, but she did manage to call for help and get to the emergency room at Hedrick Medical Center.

The 37-year-old Chillicothe wife and mother had two active teen boys, a full-time job, and had recently returned to college for to earn dual majors in business administration and organizational leadership. Then one day she felt a lump in her breast.

Melody spent 136 days in the NICU. She didn't respond to sound. Read about her journey to be able to finally hear.