Brand-new surgery suite in Ketchikan needs modifications

Hospital Foundation Director Matt Eisenhower and Surgery Manager Kimm Schwartz at the PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center during an open house last summer. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
The Ketchikan City Council agreed Thursday to move forward with some recommended modifications to the new hospital surgery suite, at a cost of about a million dollars.
The modifications are the result of code changes that happened after the design work had been completed. City Manager Karl Amylon told the Council