Samaritan Hospital commissioners (from left) Katherine Christian, Alan White, Tom Frick, Dale Paris and Susan Carbon listen to a presentation on the current construction market, and its effect on building a new Samaritan Hospital, during a Tuesday meeting.
July 27, 2022
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July 27, 2022 4:19 p.m.
New Samaritan Hospital project paused
Increased costs cause delay while officials work to bridge $31M funding gap.
MOSES LAKE — Construction of a new Samaritan Hospital has been put on hold while hospital district officials work to close the gap between the project cost and the amount of available financing. “(The estimate) is currently sitting at $31 million over where the prior funding was anticipated or received,” Jenks Abram Jenks, one of the consultants working on the project, said...