Bayhealth to open $314M Milford hospital in February

Meredith Newman | The News Journal

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Bayhealth plans to open its $314 million hospital in Milford this February, hospital officials said.

Terry Murphy, hospital president and chief executive officer, said construction will end in October and patients will start being treated in February.

During those in between months, hospital officials will figure out the "extremely complex" logistics of moving patients from one hospital to another, he said.

The hospital will be along Wilkins Road and Cedar Creek Road, not far from the current Milford Memorial Hospital off of Del. 1. It will include a six-story hospital with all single-patient rooms, an emergency department and a 70,000-square-foot outpatient center for expanded diagnostic testing.

The campus will consist of 165 acres, which is about seven times of the current hospital's size.

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