The Board of Trustees and Administration of Cedar County Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce their affiliation with Mark Clark, CRNA, NSPM-C to provide interventional pain management services through the hospital’s Specialty Clinic services beginning later this year. Mr. Clark will be joining us at our “60 Years if Service” fundraiser on Oct. 15, for those interested in meeting him.

Mark Clark has over 35 years of anesthesia experience and over 10 years of interventional pain management experience. He is double board certified as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist with a certification in the sub-specialty of non-surgical pain management.  Unlike many pain management providers, Mark possesses the knowledge and ability to use both ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance with a high level of expertise. He has demonstrated the ability to successfully treat a wide variety of acute and chronic pain conditions. His experience and reputation were instrumental in building a very successful pain management clinic at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He loves teaching and is on the professional faculty of Missouri State University. The unique model offers flexible non-opioid pain clinic options to rural hospitals based on each hospital’s particular needs.

Mark credits several events and facts leading to the inspiration to form Rural Health Pain Management. The nation’s current (and projected increasing) shortage of qualified pain management providers, poor access for most rural American’s to pain management, the current opioid crisis, and the financial challenges of rural hospitals are all driving forces that sparked the vision. Rural Health Pain Management is basing its future success on a hospital-based business model that brings high-quality cutting-edge pain management to patients across rural America.