As she wraps up 21 years with CRIS, Amy Brown is being honored with the CRIS HEALTHY AGING CENTER on Franklin now being named the CRIS HEALTHY AGING AMY BROWN CENTER.
And on top of that, Brown is receiving quite a going away present during this her last week. For seven years, she says, Brown has been working on funding for a new transit center. Their current one on Voorhees is a facility that they rent. And after seven years of hard work, and a recent application for 11.5 million dollars in federal funding, the first three million dollar installment of that funding will be arriving soon.
Brown says, the CRIS board has narrowed it down to five possible locations for the new transit center. She says, they’ll be taking their time, as it’s planned to be very state of the art and very up to date
AUDIO: Well finally the way things worked out is that they’re giving us the initial three million dollars. And that will help us acquire the land, get the architecture design, get some exacavating going, the utilites, things like that. It is a stairstep intention to fund the entire process, but probably at a reasonable pace that it would take to put it together anyway.
Carle Foundation Hospital President Lynne Barnes will be stepping into Amy Brown’s CEO role at the CRIS HEALTHY AGING CENTER. It will become official on February 28th, after Barnes’ retirement from the hospital.
