Guthrie County Hospital will begin using a temporary entrance for the specialty clinic starting tomorrow, along with temporary parking.

Chief Executive Officer Chris Stipe says that patients visiting the specialty clinic will need to use the entrance just south of the ambulance bay, with parking for those appointments to be located south of the ambulance bay as well. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio that this project will take some time, and continue to change depending on which part is being worked on, but that this initial start begins at the front.

“It’s a two and a half year plan and there are multiple phases. The first phase is mostly the new square footage that will be built for our clinic and new lobby and our kitchen and dining area and a new laboratory. And so that’s on the front part of the hospital. So the front parking lot of the hospital will be shut down. It will be fenced in. And so most of the major construction activity will be towards the front of the hospital, towards the West.”

Stipe mentions that the GCH regular clinic and pediatrics will be temporarily located to a trailer south of the hospital, with a newly designated parking lot available directly adjacent to the trailer. He adds that as of now the main/emergency entrance will remain the same, but that it will change at a later date to a location on the north end of the building.

For questions, please contact the hospital’s main line at 641-332-2201, or visit the website guthriecountyhospital.org for the latest updates.