A public event celebrating Enumclaw Regional Hospital and its importance in the community’s history begins at 4 p.m. Thursday.

The hour-long ceremony starts in the main lobby at the old hospital and will include a special flag ceremony by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars. The ceremony will conclude at St. Elizabeth Hospital with refreshments and guided tours of the new hospital.

Enumclaw Regional Hospital served the Plateau for 61 years. It will be demolished and the site will be converted to a parking lot for St. Elizabeth.