Frederick medical campus gets second opinion

We’ve been down this road before, but maybe this time it will stick.

Last month, Longmont United Hospital and Poudre Valley Health System announced they would partner to build a new medical campus in Frederick. The announcement came almost exactly two years after North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley withdrew its short-lived plan to build a medical campus in the rapidly growing southwestern Weld County community.

NCMC had announced its plans in April 2008, when the storm clouds of the oncoming recession were still off in the distance. But by the end of July, NCMC and Banner Health officials decided the timing…