Bristow Medical Center still closed after 18 days with no timeline on reopening

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BRISTOW, Okla. — It has been 18 days since the Bristow Medical Center closed and determination is nary timeline connected reopening.

The Bristow Medical Center closed erstwhile determination was a alteration successful operations and Tuesday the caller operators inactive don't person have the indispensable licenses.

The Bristow Hospital Authority held a assembly gathering Tuesday nighttime to sermon this.

“We’re inactive waiting connected that licensure from the authorities and waiting to perceive backmost from them connected what exemptions they volition springiness us,” Jordyn Case with Carrus Health said.

Carrus Health has taken implicit cognition of the Bristow Medical Center.

This aft the erstwhile company's lease ended connected December 31st astatine midnight who took the existent licenses with them.

Now, Carrus Health is inactive not capable to get the licensing to re-open the center's doors.

Carrus has been moving to get licenses since June, but the infirmary needs upgrades.

On January 11th, the Bristow metropolis lawyer and Carrus got a database of fixes to marque and the city’s lawyer says this week they volition person an designer cheque implicit that list.

“What she is going to bash is place things that she feels are capable for waivers astatine the contiguous time," said Beth Ann Childs the lawyer for the City of Bristow and Bristow Hospital Authority. "She besides for immoderate of the different much captious issues, for deficiency of a amended word, volition make a program of enactment successful presumption of getting them completed.”

Since the closure of the hospital, Creek County Ambulance has been liable for the attraction of the patients successful the community.

With the section installation closed this is however things are handled— “We volition pass them that unfortunately, the Bristow Medical Center is closed and past we volition springiness them the options of wherever they tin beryllium treated,” Kerry Harlin with Creek County Ambulance said.

That is if it’s not a captious case.

If a diligent were critical, they would instrumentality them to the nearest infirmary without asking.

Overall Harlin says truthful acold determination hasn’t been immoderate large issues with this installation being closed.

In what lawsuit would it beryllium an issue?

“Well if we had a cardiac apprehension oregon a large incidental similar that. Having the infirmary unfastened and being successful the country that would beryllium person truthful evidently the minutes for transportation would beryllium lower,” Harlin said.

The metropolis and Carrus Health are besides moving unneurotic to get an urgent attraction up and moving to off-set the infirmary being closed.

We volition proceed to support successful interaction with the metropolis and Carrus Health to find retired updates connected the licensing and the projected urgent care.

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