Springfield-based home health care provider Oxford HealthCare is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony next week for its new Joplin office at 2318 E. 32nd St. The company's former Joplin office was located near St. John's and was destroyed in the May 2011 EF-5 tornado.
The June 26 ribbon cutting - scheduled to be attended by Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce representatives, Oxford President Karen Thomas, Joplin Mayor Melodee Colbert-Kean, Destiny Church Minister Gene Beebe and state and national legislators - officially dedicates the company's new 6,000-square-foot Joplin office, where employees moved in April 1, according to Oxford Chief Operating Officer Cynthia Glenn.
After the company's 1701 W. 26th St. office was lost to the tornado, Oxford's Joplin employees immediately set up shop in Joplin's Destiny Church on North Range Line Road, and the employees moved to a temporary location in Carthage until the April move, Glenn said.
Glenn said Oxford signed a long-term lease in a building sharing space with Carlson Chiropractic Center and optometrist Dr. Lorry Lazenby. She declined to disclose lease details or costs associated with the infill, but she said Joplin-based Four State Homes served as general contractor and Hunter & Millard Architects Inc., also of Joplin, performed design work.
"We really felt blessed to have been able to find this place so quickly," Glenn said. "With the devastation, it was difficult for everyone to find space."
Glenn said about 25 of the company's approximately 400 employees in Joplin are working out of the new office, while the remainder are working in patients' homes.[[In-content Ad]]
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