QMG Stories

Ryan and Hope Owens are both nurse prac­ti­tion­ers at Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG). Ryan works in our Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) depart­ment and Hope works in our Car­di­ol­o­gy depart­ment. They’ve been mar­ried for 10 years, but togeth­er for 17.

We first brought you Denise Poland’s sto­ry in Feb­ru­ary. You can read that sto­ry here. At that time she was just months into her treat­ment for breast can­cer. With Octo­ber being Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month, we want­ed to check in on her and her journey.

Dar­lene and Mar­i­on ​“Butch” Augspurg own and oper­ate a Christ­mas tree farm, The Branch Ranch, in Philadel­phia, MO. They love to share the Christ­mas spir­it and have been able to do that through their farm for a quar­ter of a cen­tu­ry after retir­ing. They attribute their health and abil­i­ty to keep going strong to the great care they receive from Quin­cy Med­ical Group.

We first shared Bill Farquhar’s sto­ry with you in Feb. 2022. Bill was diag­nosed with prostate can­cer in 2020 after a rou­tine doctor’s vis­it. Since then, he has received treat­ment from Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG). Through­out his treat­ment, he was cared for by QMG Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gist Dr. Michael Fal­lon and QMG Urol­o­gist Dr. Matthew Knud­son. On Sept. 28, 2022, he had a vis­it with Dr. Knud­son where he got some good news. Bill tells his sto­ry below in his own words and shares how his jour­ney inspired him to use his diag­no­sis for good.

Today, August 26, is Women’s Equal­i­ty Day. Women’s Equal­i­ty Day com­mem­o­rates the pas­sage of the 19^th Amend­ment to the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion, grant­i­ng the right to vote to women. This day is about uplift­ing and empow­er­ing women and rec­og­niz­ing how far women have pro­gressed from a time when women could not even vote in our country.

Since the age of 10, Anas­ta­sia Woods can remem­ber always strug­gling with her feet. Going to the store to pick out a pair of shoes was nev­er a fun out­ing, it was a dread­ed one.

World Human­i­tar­i­an Day shines a light on the hun­dreds of thou­sands of vol­un­teers, pro­fes­sion­als, and cri­sis-affect­ed peo­ple who deliv­er urgent health­care, shel­ter, food, pro­tec­tion, water, and much more. In hon­or of this day, we con­nect­ed with QMG Gyne­col­o­gist Dr. Deb­o­rah Woodard to learn how her heart was drawn to mis­sion work and how the expe­ri­ence has impact­ed her per­son­al­ly and pro­fes­sion­al­ly as a physi­cian in our community.

When Bri­an Hill was nom­i­nat­ed for a ​“moment” through Moments That Mat­ter, it took some convincing.

We con­tin­ue our con­ver­sa­tion on Pride Month. Today, we hear from Saman­tha Car­rell, Patient Excel­lence Rep­re­sen­ta­tive at QMG, on what this month means to her and the impor­tance of shar­ing her sto­ry to reach others.

We con­tin­ue the con­ver­sa­tion on Pride Month this week as we hear from QMG Behav­ioral Health Ther­a­pist Macy Fer­gu­son-Smith. Fer­gu­son-Smith shared that Pride Month is an impor­tant time to hon­or those who came before her and led the way, allow­ing her to be her authen­tic self.