Mountain View Hospital in Madras will begin its planned expansion early next year. The Hospital Board's Vice Chair Lee Bissell says the project will greatly improve the older facility: “It’s somewhere in the $24-$25-million project, where we are building basically a new facility that is added on to what we have. We’re looking forward to that. I think it’s going to really Made Mountain View Hospital look different and feel different and be different.” The project is slated to be completed by April of 2012.