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Brigham and Women’s aims to expand while cutting back

Building planned as hospital gets leaner

By Robert Weisman

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 07, 2011

Brigham and Women’s Hospital plans to expand its sprawling campus in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area even as it moves to cut expenses by $160 million over three years to make health care more affordable . The board of the Harvard teaching hospital has approved construction of a 12-story, $450 million clinical and research building near the corner of Brookline Avenue and Riverway, and a $55 million restoration of the common that once graced the entrance to the former Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

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