MaineGen plan wins conditional OK
A new consolidated campus for MaineGeneral Medical Center, a project that has been in the works for eight years, got a conditional green light from the state Department of Health and Human Services.
The $428 million hospital project will combine inpatient services at the existing Thayer campus in Waterville and the Augusta hospital in a new regional facility in Augusta to be located next to the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care. Once the new hospital is open, MaineGeneral will close its existing Augusta hospital and the Seton campus in Waterville, and scale back its Thayer campus, according to the Kennebec Journal. Among the conditions imposed by DHHS are 34 fewer inpatient beds at the new hospital than the 226 proposed, and full accessibility from Interstate 95 before inpatient operations at Thayer are discontinued.
A final decision from the DHHS commissioner is expected within a few weeks, reported the paper.
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