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From drywall on each floor and nurse stations and treatment areas taking shape, to a new loading and receiving area, stairs, elevators, office space, connection bridges, and the shell of a caf\u00e9\u2014the building hums with activity as crews craft our community’s hospital of the future.
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We are less than a year away from the completion of our first phase of construction and opening a new emergency department to the Rochester community in 2027. Crews continue to make significant and exciting progress, finishing the exterior walls and roofing, and transitioning to final site work throughout the interior. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":9682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-progress"],"yoast_head":"\n
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