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Patients Glad For Commerce Emergency Center To Reopen

Kim Saenz, director of the Hunt Regional Emergency Center in Commerce, says a patient was waiting for the emergency center to open when she arrived at 10 minutes before the doors opened at 7 a.m. Thursday (Oct. 28). The emergency center had been closed since Aug. 6 to allow the Commerce staff to help with the COVID-19 outbreak at Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville. She says the Quinlan emergency center, where she also serves as director, saw a large increase in patients while Commerce was closed.

John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.