For Immediate Release

Mercy Opens Tenth OKC Metro Clinic

Oklahoma City — Mercy Health Network opens its tenth metro clinic, Mercy Health Quailbrook, this month. Jason Hart, M.D., Visal Pok, M.D., and Elizabeth Wickersham, M.D. — all family medicine physicians — will make up the Quailbrook team.

“This is a milestone for Mercy Health Network (MHN),” said James Dixson, M.D., MHN president and the first physician to join the network in 1991. “What started out as one physician now encompasses more than 60 family practice, internal medicine and pediatric physicians in 10 Mercy clinics across the metro.”

Dr. Hart received his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean and completed a family medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Dr. Pok received his medical degree from OU and completed a family medicine residency at OU. Dr. Wickersham received her medical degree from the OU and completed a family medicine residency at Great Plains Family Medicine Residency Program in Oklahoma City.

Mercy Quailbrook, an 8,100-square-foot clinic, is located at 4345 W. Memorial Road, Suite 110. Clinic hours are Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To schedule an appointment, call (405) 749-7070. The new building also houses Mercy’s Sleep Disorders Center, Mercy Human Resources and Mercy Health Network Administration.

Press release dated: July 1, 2009

Mercy Health Center, the first Magnet hospital in Oklahoma, is a member of Mercy Health System of Oklahoma and the Sisters of Mercy Health System. Magnet-designated facilities: report higher patient satisfaction rates, deliver better patient outcomes, provide more nursing care at the bedside of patients and consistently outperform non-magnet organizations.