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State Pitches New $352 Million UConn Health Center Plan As 'Partnership'

By Arielle Levin Becker, Hartford Courant
March 10, 2010

"The price tag is $352 million, but as Gov. M. Jodi Rell told it Tuesday, the latest plan for the University of Connecticut Health Center has something for everyone.

"UConn's John Dempsey Hospital would get a new $236 million patient tower, and the UConn Health Center would get $96 million in renovated academic and research space."

Rell Announces UConn Health Center Plan

The Hartford Courant
March 9, 2010

"Gov. M. Jodi Rell today announced plans for the future of John Dempsey Hospital, calling for a $352 million project that would renovate the UConn Health Center, build a new patient tower for its Dempsey Hospital, and fund collaborative programs at other area hospitals.

"Rell described the "UConn Health Network" as a way to create up to 5,000 jobs, advance health care in the region, and bring the UConn medical school to top-tier status."

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