Our View: Surgery center is needed here

We’ll admit we were skeptical about if the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s proposed ambulatory surgery center is truly the necessity it was billed as when hospital officials approached the county about their project earlier this year.

After all, the hospital has been the site of ambitious renovation and expansion work since 2008, with its most recent construction project, the medical office building we paid for through the Sixth Penny Tax, opening a year ago.

However, during the hospital board’s presentation last week about options it’s exploring to pay for the $43 million...

 

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