A Caldwell County Hospital agency that has maintained a home on Main Street in downtown Princeton for the past several years is now headed for the highway.
The hospital’s home health agency, currently located at 107 West Main St., will soon be moving to an office building on U.S. 62 West.
Hospital CEO Charles Lovell Jr. said the home health agency’s new headquarters would be the former Boggess auto dealership building, near the new home of the Pennyroyal Center’s local mental health clinic.
Lovell said the agency had begun to outgrow its downtown location, the former Brown’s Furniture building, its home for most of this decade.
The new building, owned by developer Ronnie Coleman, has between 12 and 14 small offices, with room in the back for records storage — a plus for the hospital, which is dealing with an abundance of medical records, some of which must be kept forever.
“We have numerous rooms, basements and buildings used for storage,” Lovell said.
Consolidating some of those records under one roof will make them easier to sort, possibly by destroy date, he added.
The hospital currently pays $750 a month to rent the downtown building. Rent for the new building will be $2,000 a month, with a three-year lease.
Hospital board members approved the move Monday evening.
News on the hospital’s bid for a Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) loan for a new hospital facility has not yet been received, officials said.
Lovell said no word on the loan had been received in writing, but news was expected any day. “We’re trying to be real patient,” he said.
In other business:
• Hospital CFO Shane Whittington said the hospital recorded an operating loss of $8,661 in January.
January usually tends to be the strongest month for the hospital’s finances, but this year’s flu cases and other winter illnesses seem to have been delayed, he said.
February, though, has been “extremely busy,” he added, estimating at least 15 patients in the facility’s beds each day and totals on some days pushing the hospital’s 25-patient capacity.
The hospital reported a net income of $48,771 for the month.
