Hospital unveils revamp

Crook County Memorial Hospital unveiled a sizeable upgrade to the old operating room and obstetrics area this week, transforming storage areas and rooms that have looked the same since the 1960s into a modern emergency department and imaging area with new equipment in an intuitive configuration.

"It looks a little different," laughs CEO Nathan Hough, standing in the corridor next to the nurse's station, where the walls are freshly painted and supplies are still being moved into the new equipment rooms. "We just got our certificate of occupancy last week."

To the left is the evaluation room, fe...