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NORTHWOOD HOSPITAL GETS $25M USDA LOAN FOR FACILITY ADDITION, RENOVATION


THE LOAN COMES FROM USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT'S COMMUNITY FACILITIES PROGRAM, WHICH
PROVIDES AFFORDABLE FUNDING TO DEVELOP COMMUNITY FACILITIES IN RURAL AREAS.

USDA Rural Development State Director for North Dakota Erin Oban joined members
of Northwood Deaconess Health Center following the announcement of a $25 million
investment from RD, Northwood. The project will expand the facility and provide
more modern medical services to the community. (Contributed / USDA Rural
Development)
By Ingrid Harbo
March 05, 2023 at 8:27 AM
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NORTHWOOD, N.D. — A $34 million health center addition and renovation project in
Northwood will get federal help after the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural
Development announced a $25.3 million loan for Northwood Deaconess Health
Center.

The loan comes from USDA Rural Development's Community Facilities Program, which
provides affordable funding to develop community facilities in rural areas. In a
press release announcing the loan on March 1, USDA Rural Development State
Director Erin Oban said the Northwood Deaconess Health Center project is a
“perfect example” of small-town leaders and the federal government partnering to
help rural communities.

“Achieving greater access to quality health care is a challenge, and our rural
communities experience that strain more than most,” said Oban. “Improving and
maintaining health care facilities and providers for rural residents improves
health care outcomes for individuals and families, supports critical jobs for
health care professionals, and enhances the quality of life in or near their
hometowns.”

Northwood Deaconess Health Center currently includes a hospital, clinic, nursing
home, assisted living facility and an ambulance service. Brock Sherva, Northwood
Deaconess Health Center’s CEO, said the low-interest rate loan will help the
health center complete a multi-phase project with one round of financing.

“It allows us to do everything we want to do in one shot — there will be
multiple phases to the project, but we don’t have to finance one phase, get that
completed and then go back to the drawing board and restart the financing
process,” he said.

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The addition and renovation project will serve as a full-facility update for the
health center, which has undergone multiple additions and renovations in the
past.

“We’ve just tailored our building and our space as community needs evolved, and
there came a point where we ran out of space and built this hodgepodge of a
building,” said Sherva. “Now it’s kind of working against us in a way — it’s not
promoting efficiency.”

The three-phase construction project will update the look and feel of the health
center, make the space more efficient and add space for new services.

The first phase of the project will renovate unused space in the building into
new emergency rooms and build a 25-bed hospital addition, with nine acute care
beds and 16 long-term care beds. These changes will bring emergency and hospital
services closer to the nursing home, allowing for more staffing efficiency.

“In this model, we’re going to have a true teamwork approach where if the
nursing home needs extra help, staff can shift down there and vice versa,” said
Sherva.

The first phase of the project will also move the main entrance of the facility
to a more accessible location and build an addition for physical and
occupational therapy and a community fitness center.

Phase two will include a procedure suite for same-day procedures and renovate
the facility’s existing emergency space into a pharmacy, reception area and
imaging lab. Phase three will finish aesthetic and accessibility renovations to
the main entrance of the facility and spaces between wings.

After construction, the health center will have room for new services like
computerized tomography scanning, endoscopy, colonoscopy, infusion, mammography,
dermatology and orthopedics.

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In the last decade, health care has shifted from a focus on inpatient care to
outpatient care, Sherva said, and the construction project will help Northwood
Deaconess Health Center to better fit these changing needs.

“This turns our current space, that’s really inpatient focused, and brings it
into 2023,” said Sherva. “It’s going to focus that space more on providing
outpatient services — we’re still going to have the inpatient services so that
when people do end up needing longterm care or when people do need that hospital
stay, we’re still here to serve them, but we’re not wasting space.”

Northwood Deaconess has also received a $6 million loan from the Bank of North
Dakota’s Medical Infrastructure Loan Fund. The USDA loan and Bank of North
Dakota loan make up the bulk of the funding for the project and the rest will
come from fundraising and operational revenue, said Sherva.

Construction on the health center addition and renovations is expected to start
in August of this year. Then, the project could take between 27 and 34 months to
complete, said Sherva.

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By Ingrid Harbo
Ingrid Harbo joined the Grand Forks Herald in September 2021.

Harbo covers Grand Forks region news, and also writes about business in Grand
Forks and the surrounding area.

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