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Newton Medical Center says rural hospital grants funded emergency-department, dialysis and tele-nephrology upgrades
Summary
Newton Medical Center presented completed projects funded by KDHE’s Rural Hospital Innovation grants — expanded behavioral-health rooms, a decontamination area, covered ambulance garage and new tele‑nephrology/inpatient dialysis services — and thanked Harvey County for helping administer state funds.
Representatives of Newton Medical Center reported to the Harvey County Board of County Commissioners on April 29 that state and local grant money funded a series of emergency-department and renal‑care upgrades the hospital says are now operational or coming online.
Hospital speakers told commissioners the Rural Hospital Innovation grants paid for a roughly 50% expansion of treatment space in the emergency department, including three behavioral‑health treatment rooms built to…
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