STURGIS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — The Sturgis City Commission is scheduled to hold a special meeting on Thursday, June 30, to try to come up with a plan to keep Sturgis Hospital open.
According to WWMT-TV, the hospital may soon need to close it’s doors if it can’t secure funding fast.
At a June 15 meeting, hospital officials asked the city for a $645,000 loan to help them stay operational as they await potential state funding.
Sturgis City Manager Michael Hughes said the loan money would come from the American Rescue Plan Funding. This as the state looks to complete it’s budget on Thursday as well.
The hospital’s chief financial officer warning however that the proposed loan would only get the facility through July.
State funding would allow the hospital to stay open and become a rural emergency hospital on January 1, 2023, when a new law takes effect that allows small hospitals to be recognized as a rural emergency hospital.
The next closest hospital to the one in Sturgis is across the boarder in Indiana, 11 miles away.
