(LISTEN): Plans unveiled for future use of former Columbia Regional Hospital on Keene

By Brian Hauswirth

Numerous 939 the Eagle listeners have asked what will happen to MU Health Care’s former Women’s and Children’s hospital on Columbia’s Keene, which also used to be known as Columbia Regional Hospital.

ransom ric — Ric Ransom is the chief executive officer of Columbia-based MU Health Care (photo courtesy of MU Health Care public relations manager Eric Maze)

MU Health Care chief executive officer Ric Ransom says the Keene street medical center will be more and more an ambulatory and specialty care lab. Mr. Ransom says the center will provide services that don’t require the use of an in-patient bed:

“So it’s outpatient, imaging, lab testing, GI procedures. Outpatient surgery,” he says.

240920 keenestmedicalcenter — A view of Columbia’s Keene street Medical Center (2026 photo courtesy of MU Health Care’s Eric Maze)

Mr. Ransom says there will also be physician offices there. He joined host Fred Parry in-studio for the hour on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Roundtable.” You can hear the full interview here.