Boonville residents, who have been without the services of Pinnacle Regional Hospital since it closed Jan. 15, may soon have two medical facilities to choose from.

MU Health Care plans to open a clinic with former Pinnacle Regional Hospital employees. Pinnacle also plans to re-open after the company filed for bankruptcy.

University of Missouri Health Care announced Thursday that it plans to open a clinic in Boonville after it hired former Pinnacle staff.
A news release says providers will see patients at MU Health Care’s Family Medicine clinic in Fayette until a clinic location in Boonville is identified and prepared. A date for when the providers will begin to see patients will be set after the providers’ on-boarding with MU Health Care is complete.
More details about how to schedule appointments with the providers will be released in the coming weeks.
MU Health hired family medicine doctors Mona Brownfield and Robert Koch, family nurse practitioner Lori Weekley and physical therapist Jennifer Hackman, who is already seeing patients Mizzou Therapy Services in Boonville. All are former Pinnacle employees, according to a MU Health news release.
The hospital closed Jan. 15 after the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services found that the facility’s sterilization room did not have the correct humidity, temperature and pressure, which caused the hospital to stop performing surgeries in early January.
Since closing the Boonville hospital, two lawsuits have been filed against Pinnacle, including a class-action lawsuit filed by former Pinnacle employees alleging that the company wrongfully retained employee funds that had been marked for health insurance premium payments.
Pinnacle is also being sued by Abbott Laboratories Inc. in Clayton for $190,000 for unpaid goods and service, court documents state.