RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - The Rutland Regional Medical Center is now using a new $24 million building that provides much-needed space for health care providers.
The Rutland Herald reports officials held a ribbon cutting on Monday for the Thomas W. Huebner Medical Office Building. The groundbreaking for the facility was in April 2019 and the building was put into use in September.
Huebner was the hospital’s long-time president. He retired in March 2018.
Current President Claudio Fort says the hospital had been out of room for its most busy practices, orthopedics, ears nose and throat and psychiatry.
The 37,000-square-foot, two-story building alleviates that challenge.
“We were seeing patients in substandard space,” Fort said. “There wasn’t enough room for two wheelchairs to fit through the hallway and literally, patients had to go outside of the facility to go to the other part of the facility to go to the bathroom.”
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