ANDREWS – A bit of “outside pressure” from a private company is resulting in Permian Regional Medical Center pursuing a memory care unit attached to the nursing home. The hospital board on Thursday consented to having Trinity Hughes Construction begin looking into project specifics with a scaled back effort from an original 24-bed facility proposal that was shot down by local voters in a November 2017 bond election. More recently, PRMC planned to pull the trigger on the “needed” memory care facility project, but a $3-million expansion to the Family Birth Place took preeminence due to a large increase in baby deliveries. The ...