CHAMPION — Township trustees at their meeting Monday confirmed that Mercy Health has obtained the needed permits to build a new emergency room facility in the township.
Trustee Rex Fee said officials have learned that a $30 million, 30,000-square-foot facility is being planned by Mercy Health near the Kent State at Trumbull Campus and the Trumbull Career and Technical Center, which are both located off Educational Highway.
“This is exciting news for the township,’’ Fee said.
Trustee Doug Emerine said Mercy Health officials recently contacted the township zoning department.
“The township has done what it needed to do in issuing permits to build,’’ Emerine said.
Trustees said the permit issued is for a 25-bed emergency center on a 68-acre property.
Fee and Emerine said the next step for Mercy Health is to collaborate with the county building department and the county commissioners.
Mercy Health officials and the county commissioners will then provide more plans and details on the project.
Trustees said they believe the project will begin this year and be completed by late next year.
In May 2022, Mercy Health announced a new hospital for the Champion site, but the plan was put on hold six months later and never came to fruition.
Previous plans were to relocate St. Joseph Warren Hospital to a 62.8-acre site next to the Kent State at Trumbull Campus.
The move was intended to allow the hospital to better serve growing health care needs in the region.
The anticipated 400,000-square-foot facility would have been the first new hospital built in the area since Mercy Health constructed St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital in 2007. It was planned to have 241 beds and to provide full inpatient and outpatient services, with room to grow.
The current Eastland Avenue facility was to be demolished, though outpatient services still would have been offered at the adjacent medical office building.
In mid-March, Trumbull Regional Hospital and Hillside Rehabilitation Center, which had been sold to Insight, both closed and have not reopened.
DOOR-TO-DOOR VENDORS
In other business at Monday’s meeting, trustees approved guidelines for transient vendors, which allow people to go door to door 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
Trustees said anyone going door to door as a vendor needs to acquire a permit from the zoning department.
Officials have said any resident who does not want individuals coming to their door is recommended to post “No Soliciting” or “No Trespassing” signs or stickers on their house or property to let people know.
McDonald village officials have also been addressing the issue of door-to-door vendors in their community and are also requiring a permit and registration so police and the public know who is soliciting in the village.
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