Upper Chesapeake Health and the University of Maryland Medical System have purchased 70 acres of land in Havre de Grace for future expansion.
The price of the land, near the intersection of highway 155 and I-95, was not disclosed. The hospitals said the land purchase would eventually allow Upper Chesapeake to expand inpatient and ambulatory services.
The land is near the hospital's Bulle Rock property purchased in 2008. The hospital is responding to expected growth and aging of the population in northeast Maryland.
It is also expecting more people moving into the area because of BRAC — the military base realignment and closure effort that's relocating jobs to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County, Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County and other installations in Maryland.
