After nearly 50 years of heavy use, Memorial Christian Hospital’s (MCH) facility and infrastructure have been strained to the breaking point. This has led to an increasingly inefficient work environment and compromises in patient safety and privacy. In light of these challenges, the MCH medical staff began to talk and pray about “renewing” MCH — starting with spiritual renewal — and extending to bricks-and-mortar facility renewal.

Consultants examining MCH’s ministry strategy, operations, and the project’s feasibility observed that MCH’s outreach has remained remarkably effective and that its reputation for quality care was superb, despite a woefully inadequate facility, affirming the necessity of a new facility.