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Patients Returning to Therapy Building
Posted on Friday, July 5th, 2024
Therapy Building Reopens
Following Tornado
Patient Relieved To Be Back: Debby Lambert of Enville worked out with
Marnie Rutledge, PTA, observing. "I appreciate them greatly," Lambert
said of the physical therapists at Mercy Health Love County Hospital.
The Therapy service reopened July 1 after closing for six weeks following
an April 27 tornado that struck the hospital.
Therapy Building Reopens July 1
Posted on Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Therapy Building Reopens: The interior of the outpatient Therapy
Building is shown behind Speech-Language Pathologist Amanda Wray
Turner in this 2017 photo.
Mercy Health Love County CEO and Administrator Scott Callender announced Tuesday that the Therapy Building will reopen July 1.
On duty will be Physical Therapist Josh Utt and Physical Therapy Assistants Marnie Rutledge and Brandi Suffal. Speech-Language Pathologist Amanda Turner will be available as needed.
Parking and patient entry will be on the east side of the Therapy Building.
Inquiries and appointments for outpatient care may be made by calling the hospital number, (580) 276-3347.
The Therapy Building had been closed to patient visits since the April 27 tornado that struck the hospital campus and other businesses on Marietta’s west side.
A total of three buildings will now be back up and running: the clinic, the therapy center, and the former adult day center at 200 Love St. The latter is being used now for hospital administration, business office, and medical records office.
Remaining closed for repairs are the hospital, the Social Services Building, and the Growers Market.
Hospital Food Pantry Has New Home at Greenville School Cafeteria
Posted on Monday, June 24th, 2024
Food Pantry Now at Greenville Cafeteria: Pantry volunteers take pride in the two
coolers supplied by Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. Holding up bags of fruit and
produce are Lead Volunteer Lula Finch, Anthony Brown, Ann Graham, Debra Gaines,
Naomi Lornes (seated), Jim Ahern, LeAnn Hart, and Kevin Clements.
It’s official: the Hospital Food Pantry has a new home at the former Greenville School.
The charity’s volunteers dispensed fresh, frozen, and non-perishable food items there for the first time on June 18. A great deal of community assistance helped make the cafeteria ready.
For the prior six weeks, the volunteers served clients temporarily from the Love County Fair Building. They doubled their clientele due to the April 27 tornado that struck key businesses on the west side of Marietta.The pantry building itself was among the casualties.
But food trucks from the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, the pantry’s licenser, continued to supply the charity, wherever set up. Donors made special contributions to help acquire new refrigeration, office and other equipment for its new home.
Then on Monday, the cafeteria parking lot was the site of a Resource Rally by Feed the Children food charity for the benefit of tornado-displaced workers in Marietta.
People who had lost their jobs drove through for volunteers to hand out hundreds of boxes of food, non-food necessities, and personal care items.
Feed the Children singled out Marietta for the special delivery...