HOSPITAL UPDATE

The title should not be ominous. I was just finishing some work for the hospital and I began to think about the evolution of the hospital here. What started as three separate hospitals when we came her 50+ years ago, has come a long way. It finally was merged into one new hospital in the 70's and was run by the regional board. It made money and grew and expanded and the money was put back into the foundation.
They built a new rehab center across the street, began hospice work, then expanded some more and put in all the fancy machines that can read you inside out. Expanded again.
Built units across the street south for a nursing training center. Then added a childrens unit, that does I don't know for sure what, but they take kids on tours and show them how things work and how to stay healthy.
Then they built a new cancer unit with beautiful chemo bays to make that awful process as pleasant as possible. How nice all of our people will not have to travel for their treatments. It has just opened.
Now thay are adding a new unit that will be one of only a few in the country. Sanford Health is establishing a new childrens hospital that will be research based but will care for children from across the nation. They only have 2 or 3 sites in the country. Anyway, it will be up and running next year I think.
So, from three little hospitals run by doctors to a multi purpose hospital that will be top of the line in childrens research..we have come a long way.
It is important to have a vision...without one you go no where. With one, the boundries are limitless.