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Claremore hospital adds ER flex beds, restores fluoroscopy service and standardizes surgery scheduling
Summary
Captain Murray reported a 24% year-over-year January increase in Claremore emergency visits and described operational changes — moving beds into a flex space, adding contracted ER physicians and installing a new fluoroscopy unit — to manage patient flow.
Captain Murray reported that Claremore hospital experienced a 24 percent increase in patient volume in January 2025 compared with January 2024 and described steps taken to ease emergency-department wait times.
To address the surge, staff converted a former physical-therapy space adjacent to the ER into a three-bed flex area and drew on a contract with Oklahoma State emergency physicians to provide additional board-certified staff for that space. “It’s allowed us to get that influx…
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