Harlowton, Mont.-based Wheatland Memorial Healthcare received a $19 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the construction of a new 38,080-square-foot critical access hospital in Harlowton.
Wheatland Memorial will now kick off a $1 million fundraising campaign to secure the final funds needed to build the new clinic. The facility has an anticipated opening date of December 2024, according to a Feb. 28 Wheatland Memorial news release shared with Becker's.
"We still have work to do to complete the fundraising needed for this project, but the USDA has given us an extraordinary start," Kelley Evans, Wheatland Memorial Healthcare CEO, said in the release. "This is an investment in the health and wellbeing of our community and helps us continue to deliver health care locally when people need it."