Work has already begun on the new Marlboro Medical Complex in Bennettsville.
A lot of excitement in the air on Tuesday as many gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony for Scotland Health Care System’s new complex.
The building will be a 9,000 square foot facility.
This is an expansion project for Scotland Health Care. They have been in the area for nearly 25 years.
“We already treat over 7,000 visitors a year, patients here a year. Plus another several thousand that come up to our emergency center. So it’s our commitment on behalf of the board to continue to grow our service to Marlboro County,” said Greg Wood, President and CEO of Scotland Health Care System.
The new facility will host a number of services from specialty care to a community conference center.
This comes on the heels of once a very uncertain future for both Marlboro Park Hospital and Chesterfield General Hospital.
“We purchased this land a couple of years ago and then we started wondering exactly what we were going to build and when we were going to build it…and then with the hospital might be closing be spent a lot of time trying to revisit our commitment and our mission to decide what was the best to serve this community,” mentioned Wood.
They hope to have the facility complete by the end of the year.
