Franklin County Medical Center is continuing to grow their Southeast Idaho county medical facility and Darin Dransfield CEO is leading the efforts. .
PRESTON – Franklin County Medical Center is holding a ribbon cutting ceremony for their new 24,000 square foot Franklin County Clinic adjacent the Medical Center on Thursday from 11 a.m. until noon.
The new facility is located at 64 N. 1st East in Preston. Following the ribbon cutting there will be an open house from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
The ribbon cutting ceremony is by invitation only and the open house is for the public.
Hometown native Brandon Woolf, the Idaho State Controller, will be there along with other dignitaries to dedicate the office building. Colleen Jensen
The $9.3 million building will house family practice doctors on the lower floor and the upper floor will give a place for visiting doctors from other hospitals and clinics to bring their specialty services to the community.
This new, two-story building will house doctors from the Willow Valley Family Medicine and the Specialty Clinic giving the public better access, accommodations, and services.
FCMC management feels like they need more space to comfortably accommodate new services on top of the ones they have practiced for generations.
The new building almost quadruples the size of the office space we currently have to see patients in their regular clinic. The specialty clinic will allow them to attract more qualified physicians to the area.
Until now, the doctors were working in a 5,000 square foot area. The new facility gives them 12,000 square feet to do the same work. The new building will also have some procedure rooms for simple patient care.
Living in a small community limits what procedures can be done.
Hospital officials want to do a lot in their small hospital to keep healthcare in Preston instead of going to another hospital somewhere else.