Medical Arts Hospital Chief Executive Officer Letha Stokes on Tuesday presented hospital board members with two financial realities: budget season is coming up and the plan to build a new Emergency Medical Services (EMS) building just got smaller.Dawson County Hospital District (DCHD) board members have been talking about constructing a new EMS facility on hospital grounds since last year. They had intended to pay for some of the construction with $2.8 million in federal COVID-19 dollars.“We really need this building as a priority,” said DCHD board vice-president David Sanderson.But costs are now rising and the board will have to look ...