MHSC makes fiscal strides

The Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County has made quite the turn around in its finances in one fiscal year.

According to Sweetwater County Commissioner John Kolb, who acts as a liaison to MHSC, the audit recently conducted on the hospital came back clean.

Kolb said the auditing firm has been the group that has been watching the hospital for years.

“Never have they seen a hospital of that size make that big of a turn around in one year,” Kolb said. “They had a clean audit. It’s probably a rare thing for an organization that size.”

He said the hospital has made an $8 million-doll...