Freeman Health System announced a further expansion into Southeast Kansas on Thursday. Freeman CEO Paula Baker told a crowd gathered around the emergency entrance to the former hospital in Fort Scott — now known as the Bourbon County Medical Facility — that Freeman would reopen the emergency department at the former hospital. Freeman would also have 10 inpatient beds in the building. Baker said: “We’re going to have six separate bays, and we will have 365-day coverage, 24/7, by licensed physicians and nurses that are specifically trained in emergency medicine. We’re also going to have some support for that emergency department, such as laboratory, radiology, computerized tomography and an inpatient pharmacy. All of those services play such an important role in the treatment of emergency patients. We’ll also have opportunities to have outpatient lab, radiology and CT services, which will be available to this community and surrounding communities.” It is Freeman’s second announcement of an expansion into Southeast Kansas in less than a year.
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