Bolivar land donation goes toward new hospital

A new hospital is coming to Bolivar. West Tennessee Healthcare will replace its current, 51-year-old facility that serves as the only hospital in Hardeman County through a $9,610,000 grant awarded by the Tennessee Department of Health Healthcare Resiliency Program Capital Investment Program. The new facility will be constructed on land gifted to the company by the city of Bolivar with construction beginning in late summer. The building will have inpatient beds, outpatient services and an emergency room designed to meet current and future needs of Bolivar and surrounding rural areas, according to West Tennessee Healthcare. It will also include negative pressure isolation rooms in preparation for future highly infectious disease outbreaks.