The Western Missouri Medical Center Foundation donated a new telemedicine robot to Warrensburg-based Western Missouri Medical Center, reports The Daily Star-Journal.
The $60,000 robot, nicknamed Penny, lets physicians check in on patients remotely. Although it's WMMC's second telemedicine robot, Penny is the first major piece of technology the WMMC Foundation has donated to the hospital.
"The hospital needed it, and the doctors have asked for it," said WMMC Foundation President Dee Hudson.