Aurora Hospital is a hospital currently under construction in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The hospital will have 70 beds and plans call for initial employment of under 150 with future employment of around 500. The hospital will be built on the grounds of the Aurora Medical Park. This medical campus already includes existing medical facilities such as The Stadter Center 70-bed psychiatric hospital and a building which houses many independently-owned medical clinics.
Aurora Hospital will be a for-profit business, unlike the only existing general hospital in Grand Forks, the non-profit Altru Health System. For quite some time, Altru has been the only major health care provider in Grand Forks and Aurora Hospital is seen as a new competitor for Altru.
The Aurora Hospital was absorbed by Altru Hospital in 2012.
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