Mowdy seeks to positively impact her patients' lives on a regular basis

Nurse practitioner Mallory Mowdy is seeking to impact lives across Southwest Mississippi through her new business — Extended Care Clinical Services in Brookhaven.

“We opened on March 6,” she said. “We do primary care, DOT physicals and walk-ins. Currently, we service almost every long-term care facility in Lincoln County and now we also have the clinic.

“We want to be able to care for any patient wherever they are — via telemedicine, in the nursing home, in assisted living or in a clinic basis … we want to be able to take care of the whole family.”

Mowdy — who, along with her husband, Jared, is from Franklin County — said her decision to become a nurse practitioner was influenced by time spent working alongside another nurse practitioner.

“I decided to go to school after working in a clinic and watching another nurse practitioner and how she impacted her patients on a daily basis,” she said.

Mowdy also spent time training under local nurse practitioner Karen Touchstone, as well as working as a nurse at Franklin County Memorial Hospital in Meadville.

“I spent a semester with Karen, and did my clinical training under her for one semester,” she said.

“I worked at Franklin County Hospital while I was in nursing school, and then I worked there as a PRN the whole time I was a nurse … off and on from 2007 until 2014.”

Mowdy graduated from Mississippi University for Women eight years ago and has worked for herself the past two years servicing long-term care facilities before taking the next step in opening her clinic.

“(We service) seven long-term care facilities in Lincoln County, and then the Beehive in Petal,” she said.

“And we’re adding more long-term facilities across the state (to the list) as we speak.

“I have two nurse practitioners that work with me –— Melissa Davis is full-time in the clinic. She is from Lincoln County. And then Tonjia Lang is from Lawrence County, and shares a lot of my nursing home visits.

“I (also) have two physicians that work with me, Dr. Cole Hodges and Dr. Glenn Zeidman, (and) I have two people who work in my office.

“My office manager is Whitney Newell and she’s from Wesson, and then Marka Beeson from Brookhaven (works) the front desk.

“Extended Care Clinical Services is committed to extending grace, compassion (and) comfort as well as excellent medical care to all of those impacted by its services on a daily basis.

“(I believe you have to) not only care about their bodies, you have to care about their situation, their heart and what they have going on in their life as a whole person in order to give them good health care.

“We’re started in Lincoln County, but we have a heart for Franklin County as well, because that’s where we’re from, so maybe one day we could serve in Franklin County as well.”

Mowdy grew up in Franklin County and is the daughter of Charlie Magee, who works at the Bank of Franklin in Meadville.

She and her husband, who is the service manager at Farmbelt Equipment, have been married for 17 years and the couple has four sons.

Extended Care Clinical Services is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Fridays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

To schedule an appointment, call 601-833-5255.