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CHESAPEAKE — Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has plans to install a new inpatient unit aimed at addressing substance abuse and mental health issues by the end of next year. City Council members voted 8-0 Tuesday to appropriate funding for a new acute inpatient behavioral health unit with 20 beds. Vice Mayor John de Triquet was absent from the meeting. The project will cost roughly $9.7 . ....

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