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Construction on a new tub and shower room in the Long Term Care unit at Petersburg Medical Center will begin this month.

“We’ve had our contractor and architect look at the project,” said Director of Nursing Jennifer Bryner. “We’re ordering the tile and hoping to get started in the next week or so.”

The LTC unit is in the oldest wing of the hospital building and has seen wear and tear from years of daily use by residents. The project was bumped to the top of PMC’s capital projects list after the Division of Health Care Services, part of the Alaska Department of Health and Soc...