Springfield hospital plans major upgrade


The McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center will spend $80 million on an expansion, to be completed by 2018.

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The McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center will spend $80 million on an expansion, to be completed by 2018.

The expansion will be the hospital’s “most significant construction project” in more than 30 years, said Maurine Cate, CEO of McKenzie-Willamette, which is owned by Community Health Systems, a for-profit hospital chain based in Tennessee.

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