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Health First will build a five-floor patient tower expansion of its hospital in Palm Bay.
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The nonprofit health system will start construction next September on a $230 million project which will add 60 new beds to the 120-bed facility on Malabar Road. The hospital first debuted in 1992 as a 60-bed hospital, but the amount of population growth in south Brevard County has challenged the hospital’s capacity.
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“This Palm Bay Hospital expansion project is one of many ambitious investments we have long planned, and we’re very proud and excited to see these plans quickly becoming a reality,” said Health First President and CEO Terry Forde in a news release.
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