A rural North Dakota health system in Bowman whose clinic offers platelet injections, sometimes combined with the patient's own fat, alongside hospital, long-term care and ambulance services.
Southwest Healthcare Services is a rural healthcare organisation based in Bowman, North Dakota. It is not a standalone cell therapy clinic: the site describes a combined system comprising a hospital with a 24-hour emergency room, acute and swingbed care, laboratory and radiology, the Bowman Clinic for primary and specialist care, rehabilitation therapies, long-term care, assisted and independent living, a visiting nurse service and an ambulance service. The regenerative offering sits within the clinic, so a patient attending would be seen inside a conventional rural health system rather than at a private cell therapy centre.
What the site actually describes is platelet rich plasma therapy (PRP, prepared from the patient's own blood). According to the clinic's page, blood is drawn from the patient and spun in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets, which it says then release growth factors that promote tissue repair. The page is unusually careful on one point: it states that platelet rich plasma contains a few circulating stem cells but is not a major source of stem cells in the body. It then explains that in some cases the platelet preparation is combined with the patient's own fat, which it describes as having a high concentration of stem cells. That means all of the material described is autologous (from the patient's own body); no donor, umbilical cord or amniotic product is mentioned anywhere.
Anyone searching for a dedicated stem cell programme should read the site carefully. The general hospital and clinic pages make no mention of stem cell therapy or regenerative medicine at all; the only description is on a single platelet rich plasma page within the clinic section. The physician associated with this work is described on the site as having pioneered the first adult stem cell treatment programme in North Dakota, but the site does not set out a current stem cell service, a protocol, or how fat would be harvested and processed. Those are questions to put to the clinic directly.
The conditions listed on the platelet page are broad for a single treatment: chronic arthritis pain, tendon and ligament injuries including shoulder tendinitis, acute sprains of the ankle, foot and knee, neck, back and sacroiliac pain, chronic skin ulcers, hair growth and facial volume and wrinkle reduction. The page compares platelet injections favourably with cortisone, saying cortisone does not really lead to any healing, and states that the physician has had excellent results in many patients — claims a reader should treat as the clinic's own assessment rather than evidence, since no data accompanies them.
The conditions below are those named on the clinic's platelet rich plasma page.
The site describes platelet rich plasma prepared from the patient's own blood, noting that it contains only a few circulating stem cells, and says that in some cases it is combined with the patient's own fat, which the page describes as having a high concentration of stem cells.
One physician is associated with the regenerative work; the clinic's wider provider list is separate.
The Bowman Clinic is at 802 Second Street North West, Bowman, North Dakota 58623, open 7.30am to 5pm, with the telephone number (701) 523-5555. It sits within a combined rural health system that also runs a hospital with a 24-hour emergency room, acute and swingbed beds, laboratory and radiology, plus rehabilitation services, long-term care, assisted and independent living, visiting nursing and an ambulance service. For a patient this means injection treatment happens in a setting with hospital-level support on the same campus. No dedicated cell-processing laboratory is described, no accreditation specific to the regenerative service is stated, and no languages are mentioned.
The platelet rich plasma page gives no prices and says nothing about insurance cover. Treatments of this kind are generally not funded by insurers in the United States. Because this provider sits inside a health system that also bills insurance for conventional care, a prospective patient should ask specifically which parts of the visit are billable and what the platelet or fat injection itself would cost, in writing, before proceeding.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.