Cumberland River Medical Clinic set to reopen in Celina.
Presley Healthcare purchased Cumberland River Hospital in 2019 but closed its doors in 2020 due to staffing and funding issues. Presley Healthcare Director of Business Development & Operations Kelly Judd said Presley Healthcare specializes in rural healthcare and saw the need to bring healthcare back.
“To go to Livingston, you are 20-30 minutes away, you know, there are some providers there in Clay County and they do a great, fantastic job, but you know doctors can only see so many people until somebody is like ‘Well, I’m on a long waiting list or I need to go somewhere else,'” Judd said. “So, providing that coverage for a rural community is much needed.”
Judd said the clinic will be offering primary care services, an imaging department, consultations, and access to specialists. Judd said the clinic will reopen sometime in the late summer or early fall of this year.
“We have also been in communication with a couple of pharmacists, some of them who did work over there at Walgreens with the intentions of opening a pharmacy,” Judd said. “I don’t know if you are familiar with that clinic, but it is a very large clinic, and so there is actually access to put in an additional office or an additional facility at the end of that clinic. We are working on getting that up and going as a pharmacy, so that we can bring an additional pharmacy back to the community as well.”
Judd said there are no plans to reopen the entire hospital, but there are plans in the works to expand services.
Judd said Presley Healthcare is considering bringing physical therapy services and other healthcare providers to the clinic. Judd said the upstairs patient rooms of the clinic have endless possibilities for what they could be used for.
“We could either utilize that as a, you know, an inpatient nursing home or some type of rehabilitation center,” Judd said. “Then we also have the emergency room that was there that we are hoping once all of this stuff happens, we will be able to utilize that and turn it into an urgent care facility.”
Judd said it took almost five years to reopen the clinic due to a lack of manpower. Judd also said there needed to be some distance between what was originally there and what is being done today.
