280 Living
January 2015 | Volume 8 | Issue 5
neighborly news & entertainment
Grand vision
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Trinity Medical Center CE O K eith Granger has stood at the top of the new Grandview Medical Center and watched the cranes at work and the passing cars on 280. The building is not et finished, but ranger envisions
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Grandview as a hospital where the workers in those cranes and the drivers in those cars can expect medical care as good as what his own wife, daughters or grandchildren would receive. “We want to make sure we take this great clinical work, put it in a nice, shiny new building, put it in a
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convenient location for the communities that we hope to serve and are optimistic that it is going to be a great long term benefit for the communit , Granger said. Ah e ad of s c h e d u l e Progress on the Grandview Medical
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Center is moving faster than originally expected. Granger said the contractor, rasfield orrie, has finished about two thirds of the floors in the almost one-million-square-foot building, with the remaining third a little over halfwa complete The finished floors still need to be furnished, but the
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unfinished ones include more special ized areas such as operating rooms, radiology, the emergency room and laboratories. These are scheduled to be finished in the third uarter of 201 Additionally, Granger said the
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Welcome water In this issue, read the story of the nonprofit organization Neverthirst, which is dedicated to delivering clean water to developing countries.
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Phenomenal women The U.S. 280 corridor is filled with hardworking women. In this issue, read about the area’s female business owners and the services they provide.
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