What's behind Janesville's health care construction boom?
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Construction continues to move along on the St. Mary's Janesville Hospital. The hospital is expected to open in January.
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JANESVILLE — By 2012, Janesville will have witnessed the construction or expansion of more than 300,000 square feet in new health care facilities.
The largest project is the 163,000-square-foot, 50-bed St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital and adjacent Dean Clinic scheduled to open in early January near Interstate 90/39 and Racine Street on Janesville’s southeast side.
“We heard from the community that they were asking for choice in health care,” said Kerry Swanson, president of St. Mary’s Hospital Janesville.
Swanson said the decision to build the new hospital also was prompted by studies that show the population of Janesville is aging.
“The more people that age, the more necessary it is to have health care services for them,” Swanson said. “We recognized there was an opportunity to open a hospital in Janesville.”
While the St. Mary’s project progresses on schedule, Janesville-based Mercy Health System recently started construction on a $10 million expansion at Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center that will end this fall, about the same time it completes a similarly priced renovation and expansion of Mercy Clinic East in Janesville ... CONTINUED
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