Encompass Health’s plan to build a new $69.5 million, 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital where Hilltop Gallery & Design Center is will be a big boost for the town, local officials say. The Birmingham, Alabama-based Encompass Health filed a Certificate of Need application with the state Office of Health Strategy, to build a one-story, 54,765-square-foot facility at 596, 612 and 616 East Main St., town officials announced. The facility will occupy 7.5 acres on the 20-acre site. Encompass Health is currently building a 40-bed, $39 million facility in Danbury, the region’s first rehabilitation hospital, on a 13-acre site located in the Reserve, near the New York border. Town officials said the planned Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Branford, LLC would fill a gap in care for residents in the region.

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