Spectrum Health officials' best guess is that 150 new job with wages averaging nearly $50,000 a year will be created when the new children's hospital opens in 2010. Civic leaders saying training for those positions needs to begin now.
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No matter that it will be 2010 when the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital opens. An estimated 150 jobs generated by the $274 million project present an urgent possibility for workers in a staggering West Michigan economy.
That number is Spectrum Health's best guess for the additional work force needed at the 441,000-square-foot facility under construction at the system's Butterworth campus on Michigan Street NE.
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