Article: Maple Grove hospital will serve a fast-growing area; The $120 million hospital is expected to open in 2009.(NEWS)

Byline: David Phelps; David Peterson; Staff Writers

The medical, political and social odyssey that was the road to a hospital in Maple Grove ended Wednesday when Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed legislation allowing ground to be broken by next spring for the first new stand-alone hospital in Minnesota in more than two decades.

Pawlenty signed the hospital bill in a ceremony at Maple Grove City Hall after more than a year of intense jockeying among the largest hospitals in the Twin Cities for the right to serve one of the fastest-growing areas in the state.

The $120 million facility, to be built and operated jointly by North Memorial Health Care and ...

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