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The four-phase project includes a new nine-floor patient tower that will add 113 new beds to the hospital, more operating rooms, an expanded emergency department, and improved outpatient services in a redeveloped second tower.
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The eight-year-long project’s estimated cost ballooned from $375 million to $860.8 million due to changes and additions to the plan over the past four years.
Health Minister Adrian Dix said the expansion is long overdue and the cost is appropriate.
“This hospital was built in 1964, the year I was born,” he said. “Here in Richmond, they deserve a hospital built for the 21st century and that’s what they’re going to get.”