Plans for a Marshfield Clinic Health System cancer center are moving forward after a site plan was approved by the City of Eau Claire (Wis.)'s plan commission, according to a Leader-Telegram report.
The site plan was approved despite Marshfield's former partner's concerns that the center and an adjoining proposed hospital won't take into account the region's significant treatment needs for mental health and alcohol/drug abuse, according to the article.
Opponents of the Marshfield cancer center and hospital, primarily members of the Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System, which oversees Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire and St. Joseph Hospital in Chippewa Falls, Wis., urged the panel to consider the two buildings as one project, reports the Leader-Telegram.
Others said they are concerned those structures, to be built next to Eau Claire's Marshfield operations, will create traffic issues.
In the end, though, commissioners said they backed the cancer center proposal because it meets city site plan regulations.
The cancer center is scheduled to open in 2017 and the hospital in 2018.