Facility

Facility Updates at KRHC

Kossuth Regional Health Center operates from a Master Facility Plan, a document approved by the KRHC Board of Trustees that provides an overall look at the KRHC campus and facility to determine the best and most efficient way to use the existing space and accommodate the needs of the rapidly changing health care environment. Updates to the KRHC campus include:

Respiratory Care Area

The clinic renovation of the respiratory care area was completed in July 2021. The need for a designated respiratory care area was brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the timing of the project coincided with available funds from the CARES Act (COVID-19 funding). The respiratory care area provides a separate place for KRHC staff to evaluate and treat patients with respiratory symptoms in a way that will help protect other patients throughout KRHC. 

Radiology

Emergency Room and Lab

The emergency rooms and lab underwent a complete renovation in 2012-2013. The improvements created a more private and user-friendly space for patients and staff, which also offered the space for upgraded equipment in the ER.

Obstetrics Suites 

The three obstetrics suites underwent renovation in 2012 to add new flooring, ceilings, furnishings and equipment. Previous to these changes, the Family Birthing Center opened at Kossuth Regional Health Center in May of 1995. The obstetrics department was relocated from the second floor to the east wing of the third floor, immediately adjacent to the medical-surgical unit, to allow for the most efficient use of staff resources. Three maternity suites were renovated to be utilized for Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum (LDRP).

Three Story Hospital Addition

KRHC broke ground on the three story addition in March of 2009 and completed the project in the spring of 2011. The hospital’s addition allowed for private inpatient rooms, expanded rehabilitation area, new pre-operative and recovery rooms for surgical patients, new dining center, loading dock and space for an updated purchasing department.  

Transition to a Tobacco Free Campus

On November 16, 2006, Kossuth Regional Health Center became a tobacco free campus. This initiative applies to all staff, patients and visitors and includes cigarettes, chewing tobacco and all other forms of tobacco. The policy does not allow any tobacco products in the KRHC facility, in the parking lots, in personal vehicles on KRHC grounds or in KRHC vehicles (at any time on or off campus).

Surgery Renovation and Expansion

Construction for the Surgery Renovation & Expansion project began in March 2000 and the Ribbon Cutting was held in May 2001. The project provides a state of the art surgical facility for our general surgeon and the many specialists who see patients in this facility on a regular basis. The improved and enlarged facility allows more sophisticated procedures to be performed at KRHC. The Kossuth Regional Health Center Foundation raised $750,000 to help fund this project.

The Link

Kossuth Regional Health Center completed The Link in the summer of 1999. This project created two new physician suites, administrative offices and conference room, rehab services in the lower level and a common entrance for the hospital and physician clinic. It also created a larger and much more visible Gift Shop, operated by the KRHC Auxiliary.

Emergency Care & Outpatient Services

Responding to the changes in the health care industry towards more comprehensive outpatient services and addressing the inadequacies of a 1949 facility, June 1991, marked the completion of the John & Agnes Dreesman Memorial Addition. The 11,000 square foot construction project and 9,000 square foot renovation project updated and expanded the emergency room, radiology, lab, business offices and outpatient specialty clinic area.