FENTON -- One emergency room opened and another closed early this morning as the transition started from SSM St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood to SSM St. Clare Health Center in Fenton.
The Kirkwood facility will be closed later today to make way for a senior living community. St. Clare, the first new hospital built in St. Louis County in 35 years, opened today at Bowles Avenue and Highway 141.
There were 24 patients at the Kirkwood hospital needing to be moved via ambulance to St. Clare starting with the most critical, or the intensive care patients. By 8:45 a.m., five of the patients had arrived at the new hospital.
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The Kirkwood facility will be closed later today to make way for a senior living community. St. Clare, the first new hospital built in St. Louis County in 35 years, opened today at Bowles Avenue and Highway 141.
There were 24 patients at the Kirkwood hospital needing to be moved via ambulance to St. Clare starting with the most critical, or the intensive care patients. By 8:45 a.m., five of the patients had arrived at the new hospital.
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