Post by pavel on Feb 6, 2016 4:19:03 GMT -6
Plans for a $600 million project that includes building a new University of New Mexico Hospital moved forward Friday even as old tensions about the project surfaced, with a former regent blasting the current regent president and the governor over previous project delays.
All voting members of the Health Sciences Center Board of Directors approved a measure that would allow hospital administrators to start the process of hiring an architect to develop preliminary designs for a new adult-care and surgical hospital, possibly off University Boulevard and Camino de Salud near UNM’s cancer center.
The new hospital would replace and expand beds at the current hospital, located on Lomas east of the proposed new building. The new hospital would offer beds for 360 adult medical and surgical patients, and for 48 behavioral health patients. UNMH anticipates an 18-month planning phase followed by a three-year build-out for the project.
The project would also include a new medical office building.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/719445/news/proposed-new-unm-hospital-now-one-step-closer.html
All voting members of the Health Sciences Center Board of Directors approved a measure that would allow hospital administrators to start the process of hiring an architect to develop preliminary designs for a new adult-care and surgical hospital, possibly off University Boulevard and Camino de Salud near UNM’s cancer center.
The new hospital would replace and expand beds at the current hospital, located on Lomas east of the proposed new building. The new hospital would offer beds for 360 adult medical and surgical patients, and for 48 behavioral health patients. UNMH anticipates an 18-month planning phase followed by a three-year build-out for the project.
The project would also include a new medical office building.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/719445/news/proposed-new-unm-hospital-now-one-step-closer.html