CentraCare Health—Long Prairie celebrating five years at their new campus
by Karin L. Nauber
karin@inhnews.com
The phrase, “if you build it, they will come,” has proven itself very apt for the CentraCare Health—Long Prairie facility that was opened on October 14, 2017.
It was a long process from the designing of the project to the fundraising to the actual ground-breaking. In fact, it was about five years from the start to the day the doors opened. And now, the facility is celebrating five years in service.
A lot has happened in those five years since opening.
Here are some
highlights:
• The $30 million, 65,000 square-foot facility replaced an aging 60-year-old building.
• The original 1956 city-run hospital was built at a time when healthcare was largely inpatient-driven and modern technology was in its infancy.
• A lot of time and thought went into the design of the new building. Board members and other local healthcare leaders spent months/years looking into building a facility that was designed to serve the future. . .