Hospital construction to kick off next week

Although construction on Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton’s $6 million renovation project began last month, in a sense, it will kick off on Tuesday.
But instead of a groundbreaking, hospital officials have come up with a creative way to celebrate a project that will lead to a safer and more secure emergency department, single-patient rooms and a new reception and medical records area.
On Tuesday, area residents will have a chance to sign one of the beams that will go into the renovation project.
“It’s like a time capsule,” said Jenny Monteith, the hospital’s public relations coordinator said. “Not that there’s anything wrong with a groundbreaking, but they tend to be all the same. We thought this would be a really neat and different way to celebrate our project.”
As far as a time capsule, think of it this way. Maybe in a 100 or so years, a new hospital will be built or the area of the hospital that includes the signed beam will be renovated.

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“I think the workers and the hospital workers at that time are going to be in for a really nice surprise,” Monteith said. “Everyone who signs it can say, in a way, that they’re part of the remodeling project, and they’ll have a signature to prove it.”
 
For more of this article, see Friday's New Hampton Tribune.

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