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Centegra Hospital-Huntley Gets State Approval

Hospital to be built at Huntley campus on Haligus and Algonquin Roads.

 

It’s a happy day in Huntley as officials celebrate a state health board’s decision to grant Centegra Health System permission to build a hospital in Huntley.

The 6-3 vote came Tuesday morning during a Illinois Health Facilities Services and Review Board meeting. Centegra filed a request to build a 128-bed hospital on its current Huntley campus, at Haligus and Reed Roads, back in December 2010. Last year, the plan was rejected twice. But the commission approved the plan Tuesday.

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Centegra Hospital-Huntley is only the second new hospital to be approved in the state of Illinois in the past 30 years, according to a Centegra release.  It is anticipated that Centegra Hospital-Huntley will treat its first patients in 2016, create 800 construction jobs and employ 1,100 area residents, the release stated.


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