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Plans for the expansion of Eureka Springs Hospital are well underway.
At the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission’s regular monthly meeting on March 20 at The Aud, chair Kent Turner, gave an update, including the recent completion of the “35 percent design.”
“We are in a position now where we can present in detail to planning, to HDC, to the city council and to financiers a vision of what the hospital — well, it’s more than a vision, it’s actually a very-detailed description of what the hospital renovation will indeed look like,” Turner said. “It goes down to rooms and sizes and departments.
“The staff has done a tremendous job and our consultants have also done a tremendous job considering the time crunch that I have put them under.”
Turner said commissioners will have a chance to see the designs and discuss the expansion at their next workshop, scheduled for April 1.
“We can look at the different possibilities with regard to financing,” he said.
Turner said he has requested a meeting with Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders with hopes of possibly receiving funds from the state for the project.
“I have requested a meeting with the governor that has not been confirmed yet, but as soon as that gets confirmed, I’m going to go to Little Rock and have a meeting with the governor to discuss the potential for getting funds for the hospital,” Turner said. “That is in addition to the work that we’re continuing to do with the federal government on on getting fund funding from the federal government.
“The state of Arkansas is fortunate that they have some funding left over and I’m hoping that we can convince them that we deserve some of those funds.”
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