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Well, at least the ball is rolling and although details are unknown, we can sit and wait for a $450 million facility to emerge. Could even see two buildings.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...hed-904766.php

“While a location is not determined, we're committed to continue to have services in the downtown area — maybe a split operation like we're doing with our hospital district now,” Wolff said.

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From MySA.com
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Pact just start for children's hospital

Location, construction funds are next issues.
By Don Finley
dfinley@express-news.net
Published: 12:00 a.m., Saturday, December 18, 2010

The city's two large nonprofit health care systems formally agreed Friday to build a new state-of-the-art children's hospital.
The next step: figuring out how to pay for it and where to put it.
Surrounded by a small army of elected officials and others at the Bexar County Courthouse, the leaders of the Christus Santa Rosa Health System and the tax-supported University Health System signed a letter of intent to create a “network of children's services” throughout the city, including a new children's hospital.
“It's not been an easy road,” County Judge Nelson Wolff said. “But over the past year, Santa Rosa and University Health System, the only two nonprofit health systems in our community, came together and decided not just to do better, but to be the best — a world-class children's hospital. And I think our children deserve nothing less than the best.”
Officials floated an estimated cost of $450 million or more for a top-level children's hospital, or between $1.2 million and $1.5 million per bed.
And although both hospital systems will provide some of the money, the rest will have to come from the community, they said.


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