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AURORA, Colo.—Construction of a long-awaited veterans hospital in the Denver suburb of Aurora will formally get under way Saturday with a groundbreaking ceremony.
The 200-bed facility will serve Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. It replaces a 59-year-old facility in southeast Denver.
The new hospital is expected to open in the summer of 2013.
It will be on the University of Colorado medical campus and will include a 30-bed spinal cord injury center.
The initial cost estimate was $1.1 billion but officials have said the facility will likely cost less.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki (shin-SEK’-ee) is scheduled to attend Saturday’s ceremony.
