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Mission Health System celebrated a groundbreaking at the site of the new Angel Medical Center in Franklin.
The $68 million location will not have more beds than current hospital but the new space will have bigger rooms, and new technology and more windows explained Angel Medical Center Board of Trustees Chair Johnny Mira-Knippel.
“We’ve seen a major shift over the last several years to telemedicine, obviously recruiting the types of the physicians that we would need to service all the procedures that occur here is impossible. But with telemedicine we can bring advanced physicians locally to take more of our patients without having to send them away,” said Mira-Knippel. He is the president of TekTone Healthcare Communications. “The new facility is designed with that kind of facility in mind.”