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Sacred Heart Medical Center, part of the PeaceHealth network, has awarded the Portland office of Turner Construction Company the contract to provide pre-construction and general contracting services for a $280-million replacement hospital in Springfield, Ore. Pre-construction begins immediately and construction is scheduled for completion in 2007. Located on a 160-acre site, the 1 million-sf replacement hospital will include two acute-care hospital towers with over 500 beds, totalling 800,00 sf, more than 200,000 sf of medical office buildings and multiple parking structures, as well as a new hospital infrastructure system. The architect is Zimmer-Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Portland, Ore.