Online vote offered to help name hospital
JANESVILLE — SSM Health Care of Wisconsin is offering Janesville residents the chance to help decide the name of the health care provider’s new planned hospital in the city.
To vote, visit www.newjanesvillehospital.com, an informational Web site launched Thursday. The site contains the latest information on the development along with maps, fact sheets, health news headlines and a contact page where site visitors can sign up to receive e-mail alerts and mail when new information is available along with the special web poll feature that allows visitors the opportunity to weigh in on a name for the new facility.
SSMHC/WI announced construction of the $140 million, 50-bed hospital and physician office complex in April. Plans are to build near Interstate 90/39 at Highway 11.
Plans are to open the new facility in 2010 with about 344 employees.
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May 31, 2008 at 1:01 a.m.
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"Bea"view hospital and clinic.
May 31, 2008 at 12:10 a.m.
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momof5: as long as the primary purpose of the facility is being a hospital, no. Just like Mercy (formerly a facility of the Sisters of Mercy), SSM is an independent non-profit. It is not part of the church. As with colleges (e.g. Loyola University, or Marquette) having a religious affiliation is a matter of the First Amendment.
May 30, 2008 at 11:27 p.m.
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St. Javon Medical Center
May 30, 2008 at 9:03 p.m.
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St. Mercyweaint
May 30, 2008 at 8:33 p.m.
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St. Camillus is the Patron Saint of the sick and St. Rita is the Patron Saint of healing wounds. Perhaps one of these fine Saints should be named. Although I do like the the suggestion of Daniel Hale Williams. Very good suggestion!!
May 30, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
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from the website:
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"As a part of SSM Health Care, a Catholic health care system, the new facility will be named after a Catholic saint. We welcome your feedback on the name. Please take the following brief survey."
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Huh. I wonder if the City of Janesville, or the State of Wisconsin is giving or has given SSM any funding via grants or otherwise. As a Catholic facility, would this not be an issue of separation of Church and State?
May 30, 2008 at 8:26 p.m.
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lakennedy: LOL
May 30, 2008 at 8:09 p.m.
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I wrote in Daniel Hale Williams. Janesvillean had a really good point. I think it would be awesome if more people did the same, so that our voices can be heard and our city can recognize the great people who have come out of Janesville.
May 30, 2008 at 3:22 p.m.
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I'm going to write in. How does "Thank God We Don't Have To Go To Mercy Anymore" sound?
May 30, 2008 at 1:04 p.m.
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The poll gives two choices, "St. Mary's Janesville Hospital" or "St. Catherine's Hospital" (or no preference). Apparently it has to be a Catholic saint.
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It's too bad they can't name it after Daniel Hale Williams, the pioneering heart surgeon who grew up in Janesville and first studied medicine thanks to Dr. Henry Palmer. (But then Palmer started what became Mercy Hospital later on. Palmer is not the same Palmer as Palmer Park. Neither one of these men is properly remembered by Janesville.)
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