{"id":13268,"date":"2025-07-16T03:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13268\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T03:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:57:04","slug":"mercy-southeast-president-receives-american-hospital-association-advoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13268\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Southeast president receives American Hospital Association advoc&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Ammons has served as Mercy Southeast Missouri Community\u2019s regional president since October 2023. He has more than 30 years of leadership experience at Mercy hospitals, including several years in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">He currently leads Mercy Jefferson in Crystal City, Mercy Perry in Perryville, Mercy Stoddard in Dexter and Mercy Southeast in Cape Girardeau. He serves as hospital president of Mercy Southeast.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Ammons has attended MHA advocacy trips to Washington, D.C., and is active in MHA district-level policy discussions. He also has supported AHA and MHA political action committees.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">\u201cWorking with lawmakers has been an important part of my role with Mercy, as it helps them make more informed decisions about health care. I always advocate they visit the hospitals, see the people who care for patients and how their choices at the state and federal level can impact patients\u2019 and health care workers\u2019 day-to-day lives,\u201d Ammons said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ammons has served as Mercy Southeast Missouri Community\u2019s regional president since October 2023. He has more than 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,4910],"class_list":["post-13268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}