It's Official! Emergency Room Opens 7 a.m. September 2, 2025
Posted on Saturday, August 30th, 2025
Around the clock medical care has returned to Marietta, OK!
At 7 a.m. Tuesday, September 2, 2025, a temporary Emergency Room will open on the campus of Mercy Health Love County Hospital at 300 Wanda St.
The ER will be staffed 24 hours a day for walk-in emergencies or patients brought to the ER by ground or air ambulance.
Physician assistants, nurses, laboratory technologists, respiratory therapists, and radiology technicians will be on duty daily.
The building contains three treatment bays and a Trauma Room, as well as a laboratory.
A high-powered 128-slice CT machine is in a trailer designed for its use on the south end of the building.
This is as close to normal as medical services have been since a tornado on April 27, 2024, heavily damaged the hospital and surrounding medical buildings.
"With the opening of the temporary emergency room we have every service back that we had lost, including laboratory and radiology, so patients can be served in Marietta and not have to travel," said hospital administrator Scott Callender.
A doctor's clinic and the therapy building for physical and speech therapy have been open since last summer.
What is still missing is inpatient care. That awaits the repair or replacement of the hospital building itself.
The federal emergency management authorities are expected to give the go-ahead on hospital construction soon.
FEMA will pay the largest part of the cost of construction, outside of insurance coverage for the old building.
Parking for the ER is in the clinic parking lot. The walk in entrance is on the north end of the ER. The ambulance entrance is on the south end.
See the front page of the website, www.mercyhealthlovecounty.com, for more pictures of the emergency room and the new equipment inside.
