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JCHC to Help Chemo Patients Transition to Other Facilities

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Earlier this month the Board of Trustees for the Johnson County Healthcare Center voted to eliminate chemotherapy services beginning January 1st of 2020.


The decision was based on a number of factors, including a required expensive remodel of their pharmacy to continue providing the necessary drugs for chemotherapy patients and that the facility was losing money providing these services.

Elizabeth Ketterling, Director of Pharmacy at the healthcare center, said the center will begin transitioning patients to other facilities nearby that provide the chemotherapy services.

Ketterling said it was a difficult decision to make, and one the facility has been looking at for quite a while.

They wanted to look at all possibilities for continuing treatments and studied other hospitals of similar size to see if they provided these services and how they made it work, to see if there was any way they could continue services.

She said the patients have been understanding of the situation.

Buffalo patients can receive treatments at the nearest facilities in Sheridan, Gillette, Billings, and Casper, according to Ketterling.

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