280 Living
January 2015 | Volume 8 | Issue 5
neighborly news & entertainment
Grand vision
Trinity-Grandview CEO Keith Granger and Brasfield & Gorrie site superintendent Larry Helms talk about the progress being made on Grandview Medical Center. Photo by Karim Shamsi-Basha.
By SYDNEY CROMWELL Trinity Medical Center CEO Keith 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 yet finished, but Granger envisions
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 community,” Granger said. Ahead of schedule Progress on the Grandview Medical
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Center is moving faster than originally expected. Granger said the contractor, Brasfield & Gorrie, has finished about two-thirds of the floors in the almost one-million-square-foot building, with the remaining third a little over halfway complete. The finished floors still need to be furnished, but the
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unfinished ones include more specialized areas such as operating rooms, radiology, the emergency room and laboratories. These are scheduled to be finished in the third quarter of 2015. 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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