WARSAW — On Monday, May 16, Kosciusko Community Hospital celebrated their 40th anniversary with cake and an announcement of a new $4.2 million investment for the KCH Cancer Center.

KCH first opened its doors in 1976. Since then, multiple expansions and upgrades have made KCH an important part of the Warsaw community. Today, the hospital has 72 beds, over 100 physicians on the medical staff and 951 employees.

Kirk Ray, KCH CEO, spoke briefly during celebration on Monday. “I can’t think of a better or stronger medical staff than we have right here in Warsaw,” said Ray. “Forty years of operating in the community has been a great thing.”

Donna Zimmer, a KCH volunteer of 40 years, helped Ray cut the cake. After the initial celebration, Hugh Gerard, oncology director for the KCH Cancer Care Center, released information about the hospital’s latest investment.

KCH recently acquired True Beam, a cancer treatment procedure that is able to deliver cancer treatments with pinpoint accuracy. This new technology is said to shorten treatment time, leave less time for tumor movement, give accuracy of less than a millimeter and produce three-dimensional images of the tumor. The True Beam will be able to deliver treatments in less than two minutes once the patient is in position.

“We are propelled by cutting edge technology,” said Gerard. “This will give us multiple ways to treat tumors. To give that to the community here is insane.”

The new technology will be operational by August of this year.