Corps Turns over Alternate Care Site facility to the State of Te

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(Left to Right) Maj. Gen. Robert Whittle, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander, Lt. Col. Sonny B. Avichal, Gov. Bill Lee and Thomas Mason, resident engineer attend an turnover ceremony. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is turning over an alternate care site this morning to the state of Tennessee that provides an additional 67 COVID-19 non-acute treatment spaces at Nashville General Hospital. The project involved the demolition and renovation of the eighth floor of the hospital to create a functioning alternate care site for the treatment of non-acute COVID-19 patients. June 5, 2020. USACE photo by Mark Rankin

Corps Turns over Alternate Care Site facility to the State of Te

(Left to Right) Eric Pagoria, chief of construction, Nashville District Engineering and Construction Branch explains contributions of the team to Gov. Bill Lee and a team from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency during a tour of the Alternate Care Site construction facility on the eighth floor at the Nashville General Hospital today. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, and its contractor Turner Construction turned over the completed construction of the alternate care site June 5, 2020.

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