Crestwood anxious to start remodel of hospital

It's been nearly 10 months since Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc., completed its purchase of the old Fallbrook Hospital and officials with the company are still anxiously awaiting the green light to start an extensive remodel of the facility that will become the Fallbrook Healing Center.

Crestwood paid the Fallbrook Regional Health District $4.5 million for the vacant hospital, which closed in December 2014. At time of the sale, Crestwood said it planned to invest up to $4 million revamping the building. That number has gone up.

"I think I can conservatively say it will be $8 million," said P...