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Feb. 5 Targeted As Completion Date For Work On Kimball's New Hospital

Contractors are putting the finishing touches on Kimball's new hospital, with a planned completion date of Jan. 12 and a projected opening of Feb. 5.

Those dates are pending inspections by several entities and are certainly not "set in stone" according to Troy Kurz, Director of Facilities at KHS and project manager for the $43 million new construction project. Kurz said final inspections by the state fire marshal and state electrical inspector are complete and final reports are expected within a few days. But before the new hospital opens, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services w...