Press Releases
Owens Concludes 45-Year Career at the Hospital
Posted on Sunday, January 12th, 2025
Retiring after 45 Years: Patricia Owens, ARNP-CPN, family nurse practitioner, embraces several clinic colleagues at Mercy Health Love County in Marietta on her retirement day, December 31, 2024. (Front row) Kellie Westra, LPN; Owens; Misty McGee, LPN; Misti Kirk, Clinic Director; and Jana Brown, Business Office Coordinator. (Back row) Patient Representatives Noemi Carrasco, Christy Morehead, and Sherry Diaz. (Photo by Barbara Sessions)
Medicare Patients: Use the Birthday Rule If Needed
Posted on Thursday, January 9th, 2025
24-Hour Temp ER To Bring Back Lab and CT Scans Too!
Posted on Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
A temporary emergency room on the east side of Mercy Health Love County Hospital will open in April. This will mark the return of around-the-clock medical care one year after an F4 tornado tore through the hospital and other major businesses at Exit 15 on Interstate 35 in Marietta.
Mid-level providers will once again be on duty 24 hours a day, with the hospital/clinic physicians on call. They will treat drop-in patients and patients arriving by ambulance.
Also to resume, inside the ER, will be the full-service Laboratory Department that, prior to the tornado, served the hospital, clinic, emergency room, and the general public.
And the largest and most expensive piece of hospital equipment – the CT scanner – will be back in service, also inside the temporary ER. The building will be accessible from the clinic parking lot, with Legacy Park to the east.
All of these developments were announced by Hospital Administrator Scott Callender.
The temporary emergency room will consist of a group of modular buildings. Treatment rooms, a waiting room, a triage area, laboratory department, CT scanner bay, portable x-ray machine, registrar, and supply room will go inside.
These services have been sorely missed by providers, patients, and the people of Love County and surrounding counties who rely on Mercy Health Love County for medical care.
Elsewhere on campus, the Growers Market Building is undergoing conversion to EMS Station 1. The conference room of the Therapy...
