Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Dr. Bill Wyatt, left, prepares patient Bob Mason of Cheyenne for hand surgery and Larry Snyder of Kimball soon followed in the operating room with Dr. William Dickey, right, for sinus surgery. The two patients are the last to receive surgery services in Kimball's 73-year-old hospital.
Patients from Cheyenne and Kimball were the last surgery patients at Kimball's old hospital on Friday, marking the end of an era at the 73-year-old facility and a new beginning at Kimball's new hospital next month.
Bob Mason of Cheyenne and Larry Snyder of Kimball underwent procedures on the last day surgeries were performed in the hospital's old operating room.
Mason, a Cheyenne firefighter and patient of KHS plastic and hand surgeon Dr. Bill Wyatt, underwent an amputation revision procedure to rebuild part of a finger.
Snyder, a Kimball area farmer, underwent a sinus surgery by Dr. William D...
