Bennett County Hospital in South Dakota has been awarded a $13 million loan from the United States Department of Agriculture to modernize its 80-year-old hospital facility, the Rapid City Journal reports.
The loan, coming in at $13,602,000, will join a Block Grant of $2,020,000 to help remodel the campus’s oldest building. The renovation will include a new emergency room, a new patient and visitor entrance, new patient rooms at the acute care facility and major remodeling in the physical therapy, lab and outpatient services area.
The new facility will be built on the existing land and serve as a replacement for the old facility. Read more.
