Last month, Labette Health opened its new Oswego Clinic & Express Care facility, providing some relief to patients who had been in health care limbo since the February closure of Oswego Community Hospital.
Not all of the disruptions to people’s lives and medical care issues in Oswego have been resolved by the clinic’s opening, however.
Dusty Jones, clinic coordinator for the new Labette facility in Oswego, says she is “one of the luckiest” former employees of Oswego Community Hospital, where she had been working as both a billing specialist and admissions clerk until the hospital, once operated by troubled Kansas City firm EmpowerHMS, closed its doors. Jones said the way things ended at Oswego Community Hospital was “a sad deal for everybody,” both employees and patients.
“It’s sad. It really is. We’ve run into a lot of those patients coming in here and they’re like ‘Well can you get our medical records?’ Well, we’ve sent off for them. (The former management company for Oswego Community Hospital) have 30 days to comply, and they haven’t.”
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