"We’re pleased to have received initial approval for this grant. These funds will allow C.A. Dean to move forward with the first phase of their capital project. Our local hospital is critically important to our area both as a primary health care facility and also as a major employer and economic engine for the Moosehead Lake Region”, said Town Manager John Simko. “By working together with C.A. Dean and the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council, the Town of Greenville found a means to assist in this capital campaign by seeking and then being awarded this Community Development Block Grant”, Simko added.

C.A. Dean Hospital serves the entire Moosehead Lake Region and much of Piscataquis and northern Somerset Counties. Services offered by C.A. Dean range from 24-ambulance service to in-patient surgeries and consultation with medical specialists to general physician services. In order to better serve the people of the region, C.A. Dean is seeking to create a new medical office building which will become the home of Northwoods Healthcare. The facility will be located in the current administration parking lot on the west side of Hospital Street. The space made available within the main hospital by moving Northwoods Healthcare will allow for expansion and modernization of the Emergency Department and the Operating Room.

“This funding is the final piece of the puzzle for phase I of this construction project to move forward”, stated C.A. Dean President and CEO Eugene F. Murray, Jr. “We are pleased for the efforts of the Town of Greenville and the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council in pulling together this successful grant application. CDBG Program Director Orman Whitcomb was also extremely helpful and supportive in the development of this grant application.”, Murray added.

Phase II of this Community Development Block Grant will take roughly 60 days to complete, after which funds may be released to the Town of Greenville for this project. The 20% local match required for this grant award is being met through the significant private sector contributions to this construction project, phase I of which is expected to cost approximately $985,000. There is no cost to the Town of Greenville for this grant project. Construction should begin on this project later this summer or by spring of 2006.