Boyd Clinic construction scheduled for July

By Editor | June 17, 2026 |

By Carmen Ensinger

Boyd Healthcare Services CEO Stace Holland addressed the White Hall City Council at their June 10 city council meeting with an update on the timeline for construction of the new Boyd Healthcare Services White Hall Clinic.
The idea for the clinic was first proposed last year. Boyd purchased John’s Pizza, demolished the building and planned to construct a new brick building that would house not only a clinic but an area for EMS personnel and an ambulance.
While the clinic is going to become a reality, it is going to be a bit different than planned due to a lack of funding options available to help with the construction.
“We really wanted to find some grant money, either State or Federal, to help build this,” Holland said. “But, that is just not going to happen. Then, with the Big, Beautiful Bill and the Rural Transformation Grants, they are not going to allow new construction as part of those grants.
The Rural Health Transformation Program is a $50 billion federal program distributed to all 50 states over 50 years from 2026 to 2030. However, the funding is only to improve healthcare access, stabilize clinical workforces and expand telehealth in rural communities. It cannot be used to build brick and mortar facilities.
“So, our board decided we are just going to borrow the money to get it built,” Holland said. “But that did change the materials that we are going to use to build it. We were going to build a really nice brick building, but that came in at $2 million and we can’t do that now.”
Instead, they will opt for a metal building with brick veneer. The loan will be a USDA backed loan through the Jersey State Bank.
“We had to have an environmental study done and then an appraisal and none of that moved very fast,” Holland said. “I’ve become really impatient on this, but I think it’s all done now and it looks like the board will sign the loan documents on June 19.”
Holland said groundwork is expected to begin in July.
“The original design was that the front part of the building was to house four exam rooms to house two providers,” Holland said. “However, the County has withheld quite a bit of our ambulance money and so we are trying to figure out what we are going to do.”
While the plan was to include an ambulance bay in with the clinic, since Roodhouse stepped up and offered them space at their firehouse, since money is tight and plans have had to be changed, there is a possibility that the ambulance might remain in Roodhouse and the square footage reserved for the ambulance used for more exam rooms. It all depends on if and when grant money becomes available.
“If we can get grant money to build out, then it will be better for our crew to have it here in the new clinic,” Holland said. “But, if we can’t get money for it, I think it would be better for our primary care patients to go ahead and take that square footage and add more rooms so we can have two providers and be able to do a full-time walk-in clinic.”
Mayor Mike Kleidon asked why the County Board withheld money from this this year.
“Well, they said they had overpaid us for the last several years,” Holland said. “But I went back 20 years and they have paid us the same amount of money every year for all those years.”
Holland said there was no negotiating with the county over the issue.
“We are just going to suffer though it, but our contract with them ends this year and so we will be giving them notice that we won’t move forward with the same agreement,” he said. “We’d like to move forward with the same operation that we currently have, but the agreement is going to have to be much more specific.”
Holland said in the current agreement there is no dollar amount listed as to how much goes towards the ambulance service.
“So, they can really do whatever they want to do,” he said. “Well, it has put us in the hole, financially, about $300,000 this year on our cost versus what we will be reimbursed.”