Plans for new hospital in Monticello announced

MONTICELLO – After nearly seven decades on the grounds of a former mansion, the John and Mary E. Kirby Hospital in Monticello is making plans to move.

Hospital officials say they hope to relocate both the hospital and its adjacent doctor's offices to a new, larger campus to be built somewhere else in town, with a groundbreaking tentatively set for next July.

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