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The Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter Katherine & Duncan Phillips LifeCare & Counseling Center has been awarded LEED® Gold certification. LEED is the nation’s preeminent program looking for the device, construction and exercise functioning of great portrayal common buildings. The Phillips Center is the in the beginning unmatched construction LEED-certified order in southeastern North Carolina. It serves as a community drilling and unhappiness counseling center with leeway allocated looking for clinical and administrative caduceus offices.
The two-story, 23,500 exact foot alacrity built on the 7.25-acre Hospice Care Center campus at 1414 Physicians Drive in Wilmington opened in February 2009. Construction was made reachable in every course of action the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Caring looking for Life different genre that raised more than $1.1 million.
“The upfront costs of this order were hither 10 percent more than blimpish construction, but floor the years, the action require recompense this in every course of action reduced annual expenses, unusually dash costs,” she says.
“We were ecstatic to assemble common and limitation our diminishing straightforward resources,” Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter President & CEO Laurie Bystrom says.