EUNICE, la. (KLFY) — A little over a year ago, News 10 covered the demolition of the former Moosa Memorial Hospital in Eunice. At the time, Parish President Jessie Bellard said that the building needed to go in order to continue the modernization of this entire strip of road on Moosa Boulevard.

Bellard said in that 2024 interview, “You go down Moosa Boulevard, you’re going to see a lot of beautiful buildings down there. That one eye sore just stopped it.”

Now with the building being demolished and a lot of the materials being recycled to go towards future projects, there is a new update as far as the site goes.

One building was able to be saved from Moosa Memorial Hospital and Bellard said that there is already a plan in place on what’s going to take over this building.

The plan has always been to covert the building into an office space. However, Bellard also received state funding for capital outlay projects to turn a portion of this building into the brand-new Eunice Community Health Center.

“We asked for one and a half million dollars for the Eunice Community Health Center.” Bellard said. “They provide medication to the less fortunate in like seven parishes, and the building they have now is way too small. So, we can provide that for them. And we were very fortunate to get $1.5 million to do that that re-do.”

With the community health center moving into this building and having a lot more space, Bellard said there is a much bigger opportunity to provide quality health care for those that need it in the area.

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