Editing Oswego, Kansas (section)

==Medical==
{{Further|Oswego Community Hospital}}
Until 2019, Oswego was served by [[Oswego Community Hospital]] (OCH), a twelve-bed [[Critical Access Hospital|Critical Access hospital]] administered by HMC/CAH, Inc. and supported by [[Via Christi Hospital (Pittsburg)]] of [[Pittsburg, Kansas|Pittsburg]], [[Kansas]] and [[Labette Health]] of [[Parsons, Kansas|Parsons]].  OCH had a contractual agreement with Eagle-Med to provide [[Air Ambulance]] services to any local or regional hospital. 

On February 13, 2019, [[Oswego Community Hospital]] abruptly closed its doors, "citing [a] failure to expand Medicaid" and "low patient volumes." However, later in 2019, then-[[Kansas Attorney General]] [[Derek Schmidt]] announced his office had executed a search warrant as part of a broader investigation of the hospital's operator, EmpowerHMS. In June 2020, federal indictments were unsealed, revealing that several persons associated with EmpowerHMS were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for their alleged role in a $1.4 billion fraudulent billing scheme. In April 2020, the hospital's assets, including the former hospital site, a former clinic location, and other real estate, were purchased out of bankruptcy by Oswego NeuroPsych Hospital, Inc.

[[Labette Health]] of [[Parsons, Kansas|Parsons]], in conjunction with the Labette County Health Department, provides emergency ambulatory services to the hospital best-qualified to treat each patient.

Labette Health and [[Via Christi Hospital (Pittsburg)|Via Christi Hospital]] of [[Pittsburg, Kansas|Pittsburg]], [[Kansas]] provide the closest Level III Trauma Centers, the only two emergency rooms to achieve Level III rating in the [[Kansas|State of Kansas]].<ref>http://www.labettehealth.com/news/news_trauma.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713180220/http://labettehealth.com/news/news_trauma.htm |date=2011-07-13 }} Labette Health Receives Trauma Center Verification</ref><ref>http://www.via-christi.org/body.cfm?xyzpdqabc=0&id=1311&action=detail&ref=167 Mt. Carmel receives Level III Trauma Verification</ref>

Two Level II Trauma Centers, [[St. John's Regional Medical Center (Missouri)|Mercy Hospital Joplin]] and Freeman Health System, are located approximately thirty-five miles away in the regional hub of [[Joplin, Missouri|Joplin]], [[Missouri]], while the closest Level I Trauma Centers are in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]].