Laurel’s aging former hospital gets a gleaming replacement June 4

There are sparkling new examination areas, emergency bays and operating rooms in the new Laurel Medical Center, as well as places for imaging and behavioral health care. They are all just waiting on one thing: patients. Come June 4, the plastic covers will lift and construction crews will move aside. People will take their first steps through the automatic glass doors of the two-story, nearly 84,000-square-foot center replacing the aging former hospital next door.