Madill Alliance Health hospital broke ground on a new clinic on October 1. The new $ 1 million dollar primary clinic will replace the current facility. Sam Huffman, a member of the Marshall County Hospital Foundation Board, said the new facility was needed.
“To be able to provide better, longer care from a local area where we can have quality healthcare close to home,” Huffman said in an interview with KXII.
The new clinic will help improve rural healthcare access to Marshall County residents, and help them receive quality healthcare in their hometown.
“A lot of those patients that have been going to surrounding towns just because you couldn’t get in with a local doctor,” Huffman said.
The new facility will be a 3600 square foot clinic and will feature new equipment, and four exam rooms. It will also offer plenty of parking spaces and will ave two primary care physicians.
“It’ll just be a real modern, new facility that will be top notch,” Huffman added.
According to Huffman, the foundation has been working dillegently to recruit physicians and staff for the clinic.
“We’ll pay four years of their college, and then they’ll come work for us and get on the payroll making money, and then give us four years back, and hopefully at the end of that, they’ll stay here,” Huffman said.
In an effort to recruit locally, the facility will house Marshall County native, Dr. Calli Dillard. She said the clinic will offer the needed quality of care for residents.
“I’m excited to bring care to my home community in Marshall County, everybody deserves quality care wherever they’re at, and its really exciting to be a part of that and give that to people,” Dillard said in an interview.
The construction is expected to take approximately nine months.