A $150 million expansion featuring additional operating rooms, an imaging center, clinics and a revamped neonatal intensive care unit is planned for Batson Children's Hospital in Jackson, Miss., according to a report from The Clarion-Ledger.
Plans are to build a four-story building that would adjoin the current children's hospital, according to the report.
Funding will come from a variety of places.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) is supportive of the state borrowing $30 million to give to the project, according to the report. The $30 million would be borrowed at a rate of $10 million a year for three years. Funding would also come from private donations or money the hospital borrows based on expectations of future patient revenues, James Keeton, MD, vice chancellor for health affairs at the medical center told The Clarion-Ledger.
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