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SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A health care company says it will pay about $5 million for a nearly 36-acre property in South Kingstown to serve as an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center.
The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1gE23RO ) that a spokesman says Recovery Centers of America has an agreement to buy the property that once housed the Immaculate Conception Academy.
Matthew F. Callahan, the company's Rhode Island lawyer, says the company plans to convert the former boarding school into an addiction treatment center with about 100 beds. The facility would offer in-patient and outpatient services.
The land and buildings were once used as administrative offices for the Sisters of the Cross and Passion, the religious order that founded the Prout School. It also was home to Mount St. Joseph College.
Callahan says the academy buildings are vacant.
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