Kneibert Clinic North Relocates to Bluff Radiology Building

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - Kneibert Clinic North moved from its Hillsdale Plaza location down Westwood Boulevard to inside the Bluff Radiology Group building at 2588 North Westwood Boulevard.

The clinic is staffed by Burton Cox, D.O.; Devona Gibbs, Family Nurse Practitioner; Terri Finertie, office manager; nurse Amy Smith; and receptionist Susy Selvidge.

Cox is the attending physician for Bluff Radiology Group (BRG) which has the most advanced MRI and Cat Scan equipment in the area. BRG is available to any local physician.

Cox said, "Kneibert Clinic and Bluff Radiology asked me in August if I would like to move over here and be their resident doctor and cover their procedures here and have my practice here at the same time.

" I said I would be there tomorrow. Considering right at my elbow are the area's best MRI and Cat Scan equipment with the Cape Radiology Group radiologists able to give me almost instant reports, I saw that as a definite advantage for my patients."

Cox said Bluff Radiology had also installed new X-ray equipment.

Devona Gibbs, FNP, moved her practice to Kneibert Clinic North from Dr. D.L. Davis's office in November.

" Family practice and wounds take up most of my day," Gibbs said. "I love family practice. Most wounds I treat are chronic wounds, diabetic wounds, foot ulcers and leg ulcers.

" I make house calls, go to nursing homes and the hospital to treat wounds as well as do them here."

Gibbs has been an FNP since 1995 and a registered nurse since 1974.

In 1991 she attended a two-month course at Emory University Clinic in Atlanta, Ga. where she was trained and certified as a wound, ostomy and continence nurse.

Her collaborating physicians are Dr. Kirby Turner and Dr. Michael Stevenson at Kneibert Clinic's main location on Lester Street.

" The patient rooms are a lot bigger. The lobby's a lot bigger. It's easier access for our patients because of the parking lot," Finertie said of the new location. "We take walk-ins. We're kind of an urgent care type of setting during the day. Walk-ins are generally seen within a half hour. Those with appointments are usually seen within 15 minutes of their appointment time.

" We take everything from chronic illness such as diabetes and high blood pressure to sore throats, coughs and colds. Both Devona and Dr. Cox do a lot of minor office surgeries such as mole removals."

Kneibert Clinic North is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Cox is available 8 to 12 and 1 to 5 Monday through Thursday and from 8 to noon on Friday. For an appointment call the clinic at 573-785-5909.

-Lonnie Thiele