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DKH
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permit
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM --- Day Kimball Healthcare's expansion is moving forward as a building permit was approved for the renovation of the former Brooks Pharmacy on South Main Street.
The town's building department approved the building permit application for the $1 million-plus project June 20. The project, designed by Fletcher Thompson Architecture Engineering LLC of Hartford, will be built by Engineered Construction Int. Inc. The property, at 6 and 12 South Main Street, used to be the home of Brooks Pharmacy and Putnam Discount Liquors. It contains 1.02 acres and the building contains about 10,000 square feet.
The Putnam Healthcare Center is owned by Day Kimball Healthcare.
The project involves renovations and "fit-up" of the existing facilities. Outside the building the project includes resurfacing, paving, lighting and moving the dumpster/service area and renovation of the building's exterior including sidewalks, ramps, delivery dock improvements, cleaning and repainting of the facade, new door(s), and storefront windows, installing signs.
Inside, plans call for reconfiguration of the plan, development of DME, PT and Lab spaces, new interior walls, ceilings, flooring, new lighting and signs, furniture and equipment.
Last January, Charlene Leith-Bushey, spokesperson for Day Kimball Healthcare, said the renovations would probably be complete by the end of the year. The hospitals Physical Medicine Department and its blood draw services will move from the hospital building to the renovated space, as will Franklin Home Health Care, acquired by Day Kimball Healthcare's Physician Services of Northeast Connecticut service division last year.