ChristianaCare has announced Springfield as its second location for a micro-hospital in Delaware County .

This comes after the Springfield board of commissioners approved the project during a meeting Wednesday night. Eighty townhomes will be built near the micro-hospital.

Some residents at the meeting expressed concerns about ambulance noise, traffic and stormwater runoff.

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"I have mixed feelings about it," Gary Lockman from Springfield said. "Generally, I'm in favor of it. I think we need it. I know it doesn't replace the hospitals that have closed."

The micro-hospital won't be as large as a full-scale hospital, but ChristianaCare said it will include 10 inpatient beds with an emergency room equipped to handle heart attacks, strokes, injuries and falls.

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