Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center to Consolidate with Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center

KENNETT, Mo., April 30, 2018 – Hospital leaders today announced that work has begun to consolidate operations of Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center with Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center this summer. The modern, 460-bed Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center provides southeastern Missouri with a broad range of services, including inpatient, childbirth, surgical, emergency medical and behavioral healthcare.

The Kennett hospital will no longer offer inpatient, emergency room or outpatient services after 11:59 p.m. on July 31, 2018. Planning is in process to continue access in Kennett after July 31 for quality primary care and select diagnostic imaging and lab services in the Plaza medical office building on the Twin Rivers campus.

“As healthcare delivery evolves and medical innovation makes inpatient services less needed, consolidating operations with the larger resources of Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center became the most sustainable plan for the future,” said Christian H. Jones, chief executive officer of Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center. “We plan to continue offering excellent outpatient care locally, which is how 95% of our patients’ medical needs were provided last year.”

Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center is already caring for patients who require more advanced clinical services and has capacity to support the medical needs of patients from Kennett.

“The history of service and care at Twin Rivers is the result of the nurses, physicians and other caregivers at the hospital who have been dedicated to their patients,” said Jones. “It is through their commitment that our patients have received personalized, quality care over the years and we thank them for their service.”

Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center CEO Christian Jones will become chief operating officer of Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. His new role is designed to support operations at Poplar Bluff in addition to retaining oversight for outpatient services in Kennett.

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