CENTRAL CITY- A larger operating room, a cafeteria, and more spacious patient rooms are some of the advantages the new health care facility in Central City will offer Merrick County residents.

Officials marked the completion of the new Merrick Medical Center, located on the west side of Central City on May 25th.

The new facility, part of Bryan Health, will open June 13. The $27 million structure totals 51,307 square feet, and replaces the current Merrick Medical Center, which was built in 1959.

Health care has changed a lot in that time, said Patrick Avila, the facility’s chief executive officer, including how staff focuses on patients, how a patient moves through a facility and in the type of equipment hospitals use.

The focus of Merrick Medical Center and Bryan Health “is to keep health care local,” Avila said. “So we want to do as much as we can here for our community.”

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