In 2009, BMHC sought to replace the current hospital with a new $300 million medical center but didn’t have ownership. The city and county owned BMH-NM, and since 1989, BMHC had leased the hospital, the report said.
The state still must approve construction of a hospital, and officials at BMHC said they can’t expand on the current site because it is landlocked on 13 acres, according to the report.
Read the Sun Herald report on Baptist Memorial Health Care.
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