NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – Funding for a new mental health facility is now being used elsewhere. The Department of Mental Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) scrapped its plan to build a new hospital that cost more than $130 million.
Instead, they’re now renovating an old hospital in Southwest Oklahoma City, which will replace Griffin Memorial Hospital.
Griffin Memorial Hospital has served Oklahomans for more than 100 years.
“It’s been a really important piece of our community and our identity,” said Stephen Tyler Holman, Norman City Mayor…