(Pullman, WA) Construction of the long-planned project to expand the Pullman Regional Hospital building is now set to begin this summer.
Voters in the City of Pullman approved a 27.5 million dollar bond and property tax increase in 2022 to pay for most of the project. Voters twice rejected the hospital expansion bond measure in 2019. PRH funds and donations to the hospital will be used to pay for the rest of the roughly 50 million-dollar project.
PRH CEO Matt Forge announced in a recent YouTube video that construction will begin this summer. The work will be done in phases over several years. The project will expand the emergency room and surgery department. Forge reports that the hospital is in the last stages of finalizing the design work for the project. The hospital will remain fully operational and open during the expansion construction which also includes remodeling existing spaces.
The PRH facility on Bishop Boulevard opened 20 years ago.
