Post Author: Holland Haynie, MD
Holland Haynie is a rural family physician and chief medical officer at Central Ozarks Medical Center in Missouri. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, he has spent his career delivering compassionate, full-spectrum care to underserved communities. Dr. Haynie is a strong advocate for health equity, communication, and policy reform in primary care. He shares professional updates and insights on LinkedIn, and his recent work and publications can be found on his personal website. He lives at Lake of the Ozarks with his wife, Katie, and their German Shepherd, Lincoln. Together they’ve raised four incredible kids and built a life full of laughter, resilience, and adventure. An avid traveler and outdoorsman, Dr. Haynie has trekked the Andes, skied backcountry routes in the Pacific Northwest, and piloted small planes across Georgia skies—all before breakfast, if you ask his kids.
Holland Haynie is a rural family physician and chief medical officer at Central Ozarks Medical Center in Missouri. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, he has spent his career delivering compassionate, full-spectrum care to underserved communities. Dr. Haynie is a strong advocate for health equity, communication, and policy reform in primary care. He shares professional updates and insights on LinkedIn, and his recent work and publications can be found on his personal website. He lives at Lake of the Ozarks with his wife, Katie, and their German Shepherd, Lincoln. Together they’ve raised four incredible kids and built a life full of laughter, resilience, and adventure. An avid traveler and outdoorsman, Dr. Haynie has trekked the Andes, skied backcountry routes in the Pacific Northwest, and piloted small planes across Georgia skies—all before breakfast, if you ask his kids.
The message came through before dawn: “Our EHR is down. No access to patient charts.”
In a rural clinic, that is not just a technical inconvenience. It is the mother who drove forty miles before sunrise to get her child’s asthma medication, the farmer who left the fields to review his lab results, the elderly patient who cannot make another trip for months. When systems go dark, there is no backup …
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President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1)—a 1,000+ page legislative thunderclap that had just cleared Congress, reshaping the landscape of American domestic policy as fireworks lit the sky. Branded as a domestic reset—heavy on tax cuts, defense expansion, and deregulation—it was not sold as a health care bill. But for those of us on the front lines of medicine, particularly in rural America, make …
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