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How $700M plan for new ER, 11-story tower at hospital may benefit from COVID-19 lessons

A trauma room inside the emergency department at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. Health leaders are working to plan new emergency department space that may include larger rooms and better patient flow. - photo by Scott Rogers

PROGRESS ER 2.jpg — A trauma room inside the emergency department at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. Health leaders are working to plan new emergency department space that may include larger rooms and better patient flow. - photo by Scott Rogers

If you think your 2020 plans went out the window with COVID-19, spare a thought for a hospital trying to revamp its emergency department as part of a larger $700 million project.