Four Mercy-owned health clinics in the Kansas counties of Crawford, Bourbon and Linn will be taken over by the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, after Mercy announced earlier this week that it’s Fort Scott hospital location will close by the end of the year.
“CHC/SEK entered into discussions with Mercy this summer about the need to maintain access to care and they were anxious to preserve the resources they had built in Bourbon and Linn counties,” said Krista Postai, CEO of CHC/SEK, in a statement. “As an organization that had grown out of a faith-based health system, CHC/SEK shared their values and their commitment to providing quality, affordable care.”
Mercy announced Monday that it is closing its Fort Scott hospital — including inpatient services, the emergency department and ambulatory surgery — because of “declining patient numbers and shrinking reimbursement.”
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