Memorail Medical Center Holds Public Meeting About New Facility
Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 -- 11:18 AM
-Memorial Medical Center held a public meeting about their new facility at the Neillsville American Legion Wednesday evening.There was a wide group of representatives at the meeting including some of MMC’s Board of Directors, the CEO, the engineers in charge of the project, city officials and other partners of the facility. They began by providing background information about why the new facility is needed, how it’s funded, why they chose the River Avenue location and words of support from various partners and officials. Residents in attendance were also able to ask questions or voice concerns about the facility and the location. Some highlights from the meeting include that this project is not using tax payer money and is being paid for with a loan from the USDA. The hospital has every intention of paying the money borrowed from the city back using this loan and, even if they can’t, by the time they are in the new facility, they will have over half of it paid back. They are currently up to date with payments.
Sniteman’s Pharmacy and Art of Optometry are both excited about being in this new facility. Sniteman’s is unsure if they are going to have their new location and the downtown location, but Art of Optometry plans to move into the facility completely. Neillsville Care and Rehab will have a new facility as well and they’ll have more private rooms. They have until April of 2018 to purchase the River Avenue property, there are still no plans for the old building, they intend to have local contractors work on the facility and MMC will pay for utility hoping and maintenance. Discussion about possible annexation are still being held and it was reiterated that all of these are still in the preliminary stages and construction isn’t slated to begin until 2018 into 2019.
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