Hospital Proceeds with Plans to Upgrade

DAYTON – Directors of the Columbia County Health System are moving forward with upgrades to Dayton General Hospital. The board unanimously agreed on Thursday that hospital district executives should secure an architect to draw up plans for the project using the Stroudwater Report submitted to the board by an independent consultant firm in April.

Financial reports prepared for the board indicated, as expected, that the hospital's imaging, lab and physical therapy departments contributed significantly to the district's profits in 2014, interim CEO Jon Smiley explained. The Stroudwater Report emp...