Master Facility Planning

KRHC A Tobacco Free Campus
On November 16, 2006, Kossuth Regional Health Center became a tobacco free campus. This new 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.

Kossuth Regional Health Center (KRHC) Board of Trustees approved the concept of a Master Facility Plan, an overall look at the KRHC campus and facility to determine the best and most efficient way to use our existing space and accommodate the needs of the rapidly changing health care climate.

Surgery Renovation & 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, Dr. Prasad Nadkarni, 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, run entirely by the KRHC Auxiliary.

Obstetrics - Family Birthing Center
In May 1995, the Family Birthing Center opened at Kossuth Regional Health Center. 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 and the renovation to Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum (LDRP).

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 replaced the Emergency Room, Radiology, Laboratory, Business Offices and Outpatient Specialty Clinics.