“While much of the rest of Mercy Hospital Fort Scott had been underused and patient rooms sat empty, the ER handled nearly 9,000 people the year before it close

“While much of the rest of Mercy Hospital Fort Scott had been underused and patient rooms sat empty, the ER handled nearly 9,000 people the year before it closed.” “Bourbon County (county code BB) is a county located in Southeast Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 15,173.[1] Its county seat and most populous city is Fort Scott.” That’s a lot of ER visits per capita.