The campus of Bothwell Regional Health Center seems to be in a constant state of expansion. And there’s nothing wrong with that: I like to see new jobs being created and I like to see new medical treatments made available locally.
They got the approval for a “Wound Healing Center” months ago and even though that fact was freely available I still heard all manner of people guessing as to what might be contained in Bothwell’s newest space.
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