On St. Mary's Janesville Hospital breaks ground

Posted on November 20 at 3:58 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

The Dean hospital is not trying to take ANY business from Mercy..none whatsoever!
On average, there are 25-50 patients at St. Mary's hospital in Madison from the Rock County area; Dean is only trying to give these patients the care THEY WANT TO RECEIVE closer to home! I'm sure there are GM employees that LOVE Mercy, but as a Dean employee, I also see many GM employees pay OUT OF POCKET for their health care at Dean because they strongly dislike Mercy. I also hear praise on a daily basis because we are building a hospital in Janesville. These are the people Dean is trying to service...the people that WANTED a different option than Mercy or driving to Madison. It can be argued 100 different ways over which health care organization is better, but BOTH companies are profitable, both are reputable and both are willing to service Janesville. I think instead of making arguments as to why Janesville doesn't "need" a second hospital, we should be grateful that in a recession some company still has hope and faith that Janesville is a worthy enough community for a new business.