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Blue Mountain Hospital
Expanding rural facility provides a variety of services
By Sean Hart
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offers many of the services avail-
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a much better view.
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quality care close to home.”
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emergency room, which is staffed by a medi-
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Blue Mountain Hospital CEO
Randall Mee started about six
months ago and said he is very
pleased with the professionalism of
the staff and the medical offerings
provided in rural Grant County.
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first face most patients see at Blue
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two-room surgical suite. The doctors and nurses
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