CHANUTE, Kan. – Officials with the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center held a ground breaking ceremony for the new SEK Impact Center for Wellness, Education and Business.

The new Impact Center is in Chanute, Kansas at the site of the former tuberculosis hospital. Officials are using a $2.6 million state award to demolish the old hospital and build the new center which will be 9,200 square ft.

Construction is expected to start in 2023 and end in 2025.

Kansas’s Lieutenant Governor David Toland and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas spoke at the groundbreaking.