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  • Hospital District is progressing

    Chair Eric Walker, EARH Board of Commissioners|Updated Sep 20, 2018

    To plan where you’re going, you need to remember where you’ve been. It’s worth looking back a bit every now and then. Your District has accomplished quite a lot over the past few years. First and foremost, in 2014 it averted forced closure by the state and the feds over major problems with the physical plant. When the District’s first bond measure failed, the facility was promptly red-tagged and closure was a matter of weeks off. Fortunately, through a sort of loophole in state law, we were able to use a no-bid process for so... Full story

  • Services at EARH

    Chair Eric Walker, EARH Board of Commissioners|Updated Aug 23, 2018

    Your District has always sought to be your “medical home”, a one-stop portal to all the healthcare services you need. That does not mean that we here can provide every service you might need: we cannot, for example, perform brain surgery. But, like all rural healthcare facilities, we do try to offer at least initial access to most or all of the various medical specialties you are likely to need. We do that, or try to, by having a spectrum of medical specialists make periodic visits to our facility, where they can see pat...