Community Hospitality Healthcare Services provided $10 million of New Markets Tax Credit allocation to Fairchild Medical Center, a Critical Access Hospital serving rural Siskiyou County, California. The investment supports the rehabilitation of FMC’s existing 63,270 square foot hospital and the construction of a new 22,866 SF wing, expanding capacity at the only full-service hospital across a vast region of far northern California.

The new wing’s first floor will house an 11,400 SF state-of-the-art Emergency Department featuring five additional treatment rooms, two behavioral health rooms, negative-pressure infectious patient rooms, and ADA-compliant upgrades. The second floor will deliver the first laboratory expansion since 1997, while vacated areas will be repurposed for an expanded operating room, pain management, and pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation. ED visits are projected to grow 15% by 2032, and laboratory volume by 20%.  The facility responds to severely constrained access to care. Siskiyou County has just one physician for every 1,340 residents, compared to 230:1 statewide. The expanded facility directly addresses this gap, allowing FMC to serve 13,245 unduplicated patients annually upon stabilization, while creating 14 permanent positions and supporting 80 construction jobs.