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Topping out ceremony marks milestone in hospitals construction

Construction employees line up for lunch at the site of the new Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton Campus currently under construction following a topping-out ceremony.

1011top5 — Construction employees line up for lunch at the site of the new Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton Campus currently under construction following a topping-out ceremony.

LeAnne Akin

Times regional staff

Updated: Oct 11, 2013, 4:38 AM

Published: Oct 11, 2013, 4:42 AM

Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton celebrated a milestone Thursday with crews raising the final steel beam being used in construction of the new 100-bed hospital. The hospital is being built behind Medical Plaza 1 near Ga. 211 and Ga. 347. More than 150 construction workers and 125 guests celebrated the “topping out.”

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