Regional One focuses on hospital while campus rebuild faces headwinds
Regional Health CEO Dr. Reginald Coopwood has said a merger with Methodist University is not possible and Regional One needs a new facility. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
When Regional One Health leaders and county elected officials marked the naming of the teams that will start design work on the new county-owned hospital this past week, some of the dollar figures had changed.
They talked about the new hospital as being a $1 billion project. In August, the ROH board was told the price of a new campus had risen to $1.9 billion.
Meanwhile, the seven models on display at the Sept. 29 ceremony on Jefferson Avenue beneath the walkway overpass that connects the two main buildings of the existing hospital were design ideas for just the hospital — not the entire campus, including other structures.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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