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Long-term care center nearly ready
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Project manager Jack Enloe makes inspections inside a newly renovated portion of the Lanier Park Hospital on Wednesday afternoon. - photo by Scott Rogers | The Times
Construction is winding down on the Northeast Georgia Health System’s new long-term health care center.“If everything falls into place, we could move in the last week of September,” said Henry Roberts, the hospital’s long-term care director, adding that the health system must get final OKs from various local and state agencies before opening.The project, a $7.2 million makeover of Lanier Park Hospital’s former inpatient section, “is going along very nicely,” Roberts said.The new 118-bed center will replace the health system’s 36-year-old New Horizons West facility at 1010 Dawsonville Highway.It will feature 35 semiprivate and 48 private rooms, each with its own restroom and cable TV. The center also will feature a cafeteria, dining room, beauty salon and activity room. The building will have one less bed but will be 50 percent larger than New Horizons West.Lanier Park’s front part, including the atrium, will remain open for doctors’ offices and other outpatient services, officials have said.Lanier Park, which sits off Beverly and White Sulphur roads in Gainesville, originally opened in June 1977. In 2000, the health system bought Lanier Park from Nashville-based HCA-The Healthcare Co.Northeast Georgia opened its North Patient Tower in April 2009, shutting down Lanier Park’s inpatient facility.