QUINLAN, Texas — A patient suffering from a traumatic injury had to be flown by helicopter to another hospital after he showed up at a newly closed emergency room in rural Hunt County, officials said.
Last month, the Hunt Memorial Hospital District Board voted to close two freestanding emergency rooms in Commerce and Quinlan, WFAA previously reported. However, the patient was unaware of the closure, South Hunt County Fire Rescue said in a press release.
The patient arrived Monday evening at the Hunt Regional Quinlan Emergency room, officials said. After finding it closed, the patient contacted the Hunt County EMS unit posted in the facility’s ambulance bay, the release states…