The new hospital at southern Missouri’s Fort Leonard Wood will open its doors in just over four months.

The army base announced Monday that the new General Leonard Wood Community Hospital will open on April 7th. Colonel Angela Diebal-Lee is the hospital’s commanding officer.

“We have orthopedic services up and running, (and) we’ll have that department fully staffed with two orthopedic surgeons and two orthopedic PA’s by the time we move into the new facility,” Diebal-Lee told Missourinet. “General surgery is up and running, OBGYN, internal medicine – we will have a better complement of our staff at the new facility because we have several hiring actions in place. So that’s pretty exciting.”

The new hospital will also have some new amenities, including children’s waiting area and a coffe

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