Another day, another change in plans for the closure of Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett. Hospital leaders announced yesterday afternoon, plans to consolidate operations with Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center a month earlier than originally reported. The Kennett hospital will no longer offer inpatient, emergency room, or hospital-based outpatient services after 11:59 p.m. Saturday, June 30. Earlier this week those services were scheduled to end after 11:59 p.m. July 31st.
The hospital will no longer provide obstetric/gynecologic physician coverage after, Thursday, May 17. As a result, the hospital will no longer provide planned inpatient childbirth services after that date. Patients affected by the change will be notified by hospital staff. The hospital has also received notice that it will no longer have physician coverage after May 17. This means the hospital will no longer provide planned, inpatient childbirth services after that date.
Calls to affected patients begin yesterday to help them transfer their care to the Poplar Bluff Medical Center.