Article: Tri-City Medical Center seeks final ok for $778M seismic retrofit: two hospital wings must be retrofitted by 2013 deadline.

Spending $778 million should provide Tri-City Medical Center with the seismic retrofit and building renovations that the aging hospital needs to maintain its role as the primary acute-care facility in North County.

The present six members of the Tri-City Healthcare District board unanimously selected the second alternative--the least expensive of the three design concepts--during the last week of November.

At the regular board meeting on Dec. 13, the selected design will be approved.

Most of the buildings at the 397-bed acute-care medical center were built in the late '60s. The hospital, which provides care to Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista, ...

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