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Hospital's transformation continues |
By David Sale,
Newberg Graphic reporter
E-mail David at
dsale@eaglenewspapers.com
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The former Providence
Newberg Hospital will find a new purpose this fall as an academic
building for George Fox University.
The renovations will create 40 offices and six lecture halls, said
Clyde Thomas of the university’s plant services department, which is
supervising the work.
“We’re adding some
new interior walls and it should be completed by mid-July,” Thomas
said. “The renovations are all in the front half of the building —
the rear portion will be mothballed.”
The university agreed to purchase from Providence Health System the
Villa Road site in April 2004 for $3 million, following the
hospital’s move to the new Providence Newberg Medical Center on
Highway 99W, said Mike Antrim, public relations director for the
hospital.
“We’re remodeling and renovating the building for use as
classrooms,” said Rob Felton, spokesman for the university. “It’ll
be home to our education classes and our doctorate in psychology
program.”
While speculation circulated that the former hospital would house
George Fox’s nursing degree program, Felton said that was never the
case.
“The Hoover Academic Building expansion was designed for the
program, but everyone assumed it would be in the old hospital,” he
said.
“The sale was actually part of a larger partnership between us and
George Fox to establish the nurse training program,” Antrim said.
“Part of that was that the learning lab for the nursing program bear
the Providence name.”
The renovation is being carried out by Robert Gray Partners Inc. |
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From
June 6, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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