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Highland Hospital gets expansion OK
Highland Hospital and its residential neighbors have finally found some common ground, allowing the hospital to move ahead with its $70 million expansion plan. City Council unanimously approved Highland Hospital’s application last week to rezone the hospital’s 9.27-acre site from an Institutional Planned Development District to a Planned Development District. Highland needed the rezoning before […]
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Highland’s growth worries neighbors
If City Council approves a rezoning request next week, Highland Hospital will be able to move forward with its estimated $70 million plan to add four stories to the existing three-story building. The City Planning Commission approved Highland’s application last month to rezone the hospital’s 9.27-acre site from an Institutional Planned Development District to a […]
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Highland Hospital’s expansion worries residents
Highland Hospital officials are planning a $70 million expansion that adds four more stories to its southeast wing. That part of the hospital, near Mt. Vernon Avenue and Bellevue Drive, is currently only three stories tall. Even though the expansion is within the hospital’s current footprint, the size and mass of the building has many […]
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Week ahead: Monday, October 19
Several candidate forums and debates are scheduled this week in anticipation of the November 3 general election. The League of Women Voters, the Children’s Agenda’s Interfaith Collaborative, Greece Baptist Church, and the Interfaith Alliance of Rochester are sponsoring a forum for County Legislature districts 4 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. today (Monday, October 19). The […]
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Feedback 10/14
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Preliminary hospital designs to be shown
Residents of the neighborhoods near Highland Hospital will get a better look at a proposed hospital addition at a meeting on Monday, October 20. The meeting is at 5:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Lodge in Highland Park. Residents will see preliminary designs for a two-story, 30,000-square-foot addition that would be built off the back of […]
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Feedback 5/14
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Costs, effects, and a medical impasse
Denise Speicher, a fair-skinned, middle-aged woman with a big smile, seems sturdy and healthy. But three times a week, she makes a 20-minute trip to HighlandHospital, where she receives 3 1/2 hours of hemodialysis. The process cleans the toxins from her blood. Without it, Speicher would die within a couple of weeks. Speicher was born […]
