Tri-State ushers in a new wing featuring 25 inpatient beds

May 20—Health care providers at Tri-State Health, formerly Tri-State Memorial Hospital, say a new Inpatient and Dietary Wing slated to receive its first patients starting June 5 will help them to better serve patients in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley.

On Friday, the hospital held a ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the event. Total costs for the new wing, roughly 10 years in the making, were upwards of $35 million, said communications director Rebecca Mann.

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