Kremmling, Colorado – Kremmling Memorial Hospital District is continuing to make progress on the proposed Middle Park Medical Center project, with the goal of providing a variety of needed healthcare services in East Grand County sometime in 2012.
Recent developments of the project include the process of acquiring capital financing, auditing recently completed third-party market-analysis, to determine viable service lines, (those services that have enough market demand to warrant investment and expect reasonable return), and analyzing financial feasibility studies; ultimately for the approval of the financing company, which will be the true launching point for this significant community-oriented and initiated, long–term healthcare endeavor.
On July 22nd, a MOU (Memorandom of Understanding) was signed by the President of Centura Health and the KMHD CEO. The agreement, although not legally binding, is thought to be a significant development and a positive sign of colaboration between Centura and KMHD.
“We are hopeful to join forces with Centura in order to bring the highest quality of care possible and the most requested and financially reasonable services to Grand County,” noted Jeff Miller, VP of the KMHD Board of Directors.
While important components of developing such an important capital project are moving along favorably, hospital leaders are responsibly quick to clarify that anything can happen between now and financing approval and that any number of variables might affect the development and the time-line of the project.
“We have a team of exceptional professionals working on this project and a dedicated board of directors who want to see both the survival of the hospital in Kremmling and the development of services in East Grand. We are confident and very motivated to make this project work,” Bill Widener, CEO of KMHD, said. “We are seeing a growing number of supporters who are realizing that what we are pursuing is most likely the best possible option for the development and sustainment of community –managed and operated healthcare.”
Widener kindly asked that Grand County residents, second-home owners and guest, “Be patient with us and know we are working hard every day to sustain current operations and to bring more and better healthcare to all of Grand County.”
“We’re getting closer to bringing these community healthcare needs to fruition and the future looks bright,” and he adds, “but remember that there are no guarantees on anything; in life, in business, in healthcare, (especially in this day and age),” he confessed.
“We need the support and encouragement of both communities [East and West Grand] to make this happen – to make healthcare accessible for everybody; their guests and their neighbors, whether that neighbor be to the east or to the west of them.”
Progress has also been made with land planning and building design. Recent preliminary adjustments have brought the square footage to approximately 37,000. In the plans developing around in as early as the late 90’s, propelled by such admirable and valuable efforts of numerous Grand County Commissioners, various municipality planners, town counselors, the Grand County Rural Health Network founders and successors, chambers of commerce, business owners and so many more, it was closer to 42,000 square feet.
Regardless of the immediate proposed square feet, there is room for growth and development as community medical need dictates. After all, the desire for Kremmling Memorial Hospital is to not only provide for as many needs as reasonable and possible now, but to plan for the care of future generations, who will live, work and/or play here.
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