Residents will now have to travel to Clinton or Bolivar for a hospital. This building, erected in 1969 and expanded over the years, will be razed within a year.
OSCEOLA, Mo. – The boards of Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar and Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola finalized the agreement for CMH to provide medical services in Osceola and purchase SOH’s assets. The contract signed on Wednesday ends a negotiation that started a couple of months ago. It resulted this month in the end of Sac-Osage’s 45 years of in-patient hospital services.
The purchase will be closed Nov. 1, 2014. CMH will pay $400,000 for assets other than the real estate, and will pay $250,000 for the real estate after the hospital building is razed, which is supposed to happen by Nov. 1, 2015.
CMH in November will take over a medical clinic, and will also offer a walk-in clinic and other services. CMH will also operate Sac-Osage’s ambulance service, and add another ambulance to the Osceola operations. Sac-Osage will close its clinic in Wheatland, where CMH already has a clinic.
CMH Osceola Medical Center will be in SOH’s Tri-County Clinic building that is just uphill from the hospital building in Osceola. CMH’s walk-in clinic will be open daily from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. The clinic will be connected to CMH’s advanced electronic medical record system to ensure both patient confidentiality and convenience.
CMH Osceola Medical Center will also include telehealth services, outpatient lab, and imaging (including X-ray and ultrasound). The CMH Osceola Community Pharmacy will also be in the building. People who used Sac Osage Pharmacy in the hospital will have all their prescriptions moved to the new location in the clinic.
CMH Osceola Rehab, which includes physical, occupational and speech therapy, will be in the former Sac-Osage Family Dentistry building at 475 Hailman in Osceola.
“This is a very positive addition to the community. I believe that CMH will be able to provide all of the services that the community really needs plus this will give the community access to specialty care that they have not had previously,” Sac-Osage Hospital chief executive officer Chris Smiley said in a news release.
“We look forward to working with community members as we develop innovative solutions to meet the health needs of Osceola and surrounding communities,” Don Babb, chief executive officer/executive director of CMH, said in the news release. “When services grow, our vision is to build a large new facility that will accommodate added service offerings and additional space for medical providers.”
CMH named Eran Dawson as clinic manager of the new medical center. Dawson has a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is pursuing a master’s degree in healthcare administration from Webster University. Dawson previously served as the coordinator and certified application counselor at CMH and most recently as the coordinator-assistant buyer for Materials Management at CMH.
The Sac-Osage Hospital Board will continue to meet. Area residents approved a property tax to support the hospital in 2009, and it will remain in effect until 2019. The board says it will use those funds to pay debts and ongoing expenses.
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It's official: Hospital in Clinton will serve Osceola, replacing Sac-Osage
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