Parkview hospital plans helipad
A plan to build a helipad at Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick, first proposed in 2006, is back on the table.
After receiving a final engineering report last week, hospital officials are planning to present the plan to its board of directors either today or tomorrow, according to The Times Record in Brunswick. Parkview CEO Ted Lewis told the paper that plans to locate a helipad somewhere on the hospital's campus will be submitted to the Brunswick Planning Department by the end of this month. The hospital obtained $50,000 from a 2003 transportation bond and must complete the helipad before those funds expire in June 2009. The project is not related to Central Maine Medical Center's current bid to acquire Parkview, Lewis told the paper.
The project was derailed two years ago due to environmental issues, opposition from neighbors and legal battles over two physicians who left Parkview to work at rival Mid Coast Hospital that shifted Parkview's focus, according to Lewis.
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