Residents in

eastern Coweta County will soon have a satellite health center office

to call their own.

The Coweta

County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to accept the Coweta County

Hospital Authority's participation in the building of a satellite health

department facility on property that Coweta County owns at Ebenezer Church

Road and Ga. Highway 154.

The Hospital

Authority met last week and voted to build a center to deal with the rapidly

growing population on the eastern side of the county, and also to help

deal with health concerns of a growing immigrant population.

The building

will be approximately 10,000 to 12,000 square feet and participation by

the Hospital Authority is not to exceed $1.5 million, said County Information

Officer Tom Corker.

The County

Commission also instructed staff to move forward with the plans needed

to begin construction of the new facility and write a letter to the hospital

authority officially accepting its offer and expressing thanks for its

willingness to participate.

No dates have

yet been set for the beginning or completion of the new health department

satellite facility, Corker said.