Patients and staff moved into the newly expanded, state-of-the-art hospital facility at Glacial Ridge Health System (GRHS) in Glenwood on December 12, 2017. The new facility is the result of a long-term planning process that started with a vision six years ago because the hospital did not have enough patient rooms. In the past 10 years, the number of local and regional patients using GRHS has tripled and so has the number of physicians and advanced care providers. GRHS has grown from seven to 26 health-care providers, including specialty physicians like a general surgeon, OB/GYN, podiatrist, internal medicine physician, and an...

Immediate Future: Remodel Old Hospital Patient Rooms In the next month, GRHS will begin remodeling the old patient rooms for new purposes. The remodeling is expected to take about seven months to complete. Over half of the area will be renovated to provide new and larger space for cardiology outreach, cardiac rehab, sleep studies, pulmonary rehab, colonoscopy, and other gastrointestinal procedure rooms. The remainder of the space will be remodeled to house some administrative departments such as Marketing, Human Resources, and Administration. That will free up space on the second floor for the crowded departments of Information Technology, Business Office and Health Information...