Community Hospitality Healthcare Services deployed $12 million in New Markets Tax Credit allocation to Russell County Hospital to support the rehabilitation and expansion of its existing 38,000 square foot Critical Access Hospital located in Russell Springs, Kentucky. The investment funds a series of strategic expansions and renovations designed to relieve a facility that has reached the limits of its operational capacity after more than four decades of service to the rural Lake Cumberland District.

The project touches nearly every clinical department within the hospital. A redesigned 6,500 square foot Emergency Room wing replaces a 4,000 square foot ER that served more than 12,500 patients in 2023, and scattered diagnostic imaging services will be consolidated into a single 6,900 square foot suite housing CT, MRI, and mammography. A new 8,000 square foot general surgery center brings vascular, orthopedic, and other specialized procedures to RCH on a weekly basis, while the repurposing of vacated imaging space returns four previously unusable inpatient beds to service. An expanded infusion clinic also introduces outpatient chemotherapy, sparing cancer patients lengthy travel for treatment. These improvements directly address a community where 24% of residents report poor or fair health and where the physician-to-resident ratio is nearly double the state average. Upon stabilization, RCH will treat approximately 22,400 unduplicated patients annually, of whom 48% are anticipated to be low-income persons and 70% low-income community residents.