$20 million Spirit Lake hospital expansion underway
The emergency department in Spirit Lake’s hospital will double in size when a $20 million construction project is finished. Jason Harrington, the CEO of Lakes Regional Healthcare, said it’s been a while since facility upgrades added a surgery wing, patient rooms, a birthing center and family doctor’s offices, “so we decided at our 65h anniversary it was time to dust off that 15-year plan, revisited that. It determined needs of about $50 million and we thought it wouldn’t be financially responsible that we would take on a $50 million project and so we broke that into seven different phases. We thought starting with the emergency department made the most sense.”
