Officials with the Audubon County Memorial Hospital say the City of Audubon has approved the cutting of a T1 copper line that services the Audubon County Hospital. The project begins at 3-p.m today (Tuesday), and is needed to complete a portion of the water and sewer project. Since the copper line serves as the only phone line to the hospital, the facility will be operating under their “disaster protocol” while the phone line is disconnected, until splicing of the copper line has been completed.

Officials say they chose this particular time, so as to limit the disruption to the critical functions of the hospital.  If you have an urgent need to contact the hospital during the time the phone line is down, please call the Audubon County Sheriff’s Dispatch at 712-563-2631 and they will relay the message to the hospital.  The Hospital will send out notification when the telephone service is operational again.