Hope that in 2021 — when the $15 million construction project to the center is expected to be completed — hospital officials will be able to celebrate not just the project being done, but also the defeat of the covid-19 pandemic that has killed nearly 300,000 people around the country. The addition is on budget and on time to be ready sometime in 2021 to coincide with the hospital’s 100 year anniversary. Once that is complete, the Emergency Center operations will be moved into the addition while crews begin renovations on the current EC space. According to Mary Lynn Gagnon, executive director of the Bristol Hospital Foundation, the foundation has raised about $4 million toward the renovation project. Although that falls just half a million dollars short of the hospital’s goal, Gagnon said she is hoping to raise another $1 million before all is said and done.
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