Beacon Dec 2023

December 2023 THE BEACON Page 11A
New Hospital Plans for
Greendale Unveiled
Opening in 2027, facility will be located on campus with
physicians offices and cancer center
By Guy Karrick,
St. Elizabeth Healthcare
To better meet the current
and future health needs of
people in Southeastern Indiana,
St. Elizabeth Healthcare
announced today that it
will build a new, $125 million
hospital in Greendale,
near I-275. The new facility
will be adjacent to St. Elizabeth
Physicians offices and
the St. Elizabeth Cancer
Center—Dearborn, which is
scheduled to open in spring
2024. Design work for the
new hospital will begin this
fall, with an anticipated
opening in 2027.
“When it’s complete, the
Greendale campus will offer
our patients, providers, and
associates in Southeastern
Indiana quality care in a
convenient setting, near
Interstate 275,” said Garren
Colvin, President and Chief
Executive Officer of St.
Elizabeth Healthcare.
A three-story, state-ofthe-art
120,000-square-foot
building is planned. Services
will include inpatient
care, surgery, emergency
department, pharmacy, laboratory,
imaging, endoscopy,
interventional radiology,
and cardiac catheterization.
The current location of
St. Elizabeth Dearborn
will remain open until the
new facility is completed.
As previously announced,
the St. Elizabeth Dearborn
birthing center will close,
with the last deliveries
planned for mid-November.
This closure was due to low
demand for birthing services
in Southeastern Indiana.
“Women’s health services
will continue to be offered
in Southeastern Indiana,”
said Heidi Murley, MD,
Executive Vice President,
St. Elizabeth Healthcare
and Chief Executive Officer
and President, St. Elizabeth
Physicians. “Only deliveries
are shifting outside the area.
Our St. Elizabeth Physicians
office in Lawrenceburg will
provide pre and post-natal
care, and gynecological care
as well. The new Greendale
hospital campus will offer
breast health screening,
gynecological surgery, and
other outpatient women’s
health care.”
St. Elizabeth’s leadership
team is currently working
with community leaders to
evaluate the best use for the
Lawrenceburg site once the
new facility is completed.
“With a dedicated cancer
care center, a full-service
hospital and specialists, the
Greendale campus will offer
better access to screenings,
diagnosis, and treatment,”
said Angela Roberts, RN,
Vice President, Chief Nursing
Officer Dearborn, Site
Administrator Dearborn.
“As a lifelong resident of
Southeastern Indiana, I’m
excited about what this development
will bring to our
community.”
St. Elizabeth Healthcare
operates six facilities and
more than 172 primary
care and specialty practices
throughout the Northern
Kentucky, Southeastern
Indiana and Greater Cincinnati
region. Sponsored by
the Diocese of Covington,
St. Elizabeth is a missionbased
organization committed
to improving the
health of the communities it
serves, providing more than
$108 million in uncompensated
care and benefit to the
community each year.
For more information on
St. Elizabeth’s services,
visit https://www.stelizabeth.com/care/dearborn.
S
ALUTE
TO THE MILITARY
Americanism at its finest!
By Jay A. Collars
Chef de Gare
Voiture Locale 145
Grande du Indiana
On Sept. 15–17, 2023,
twenty Southeastern Indiana
Vietnam Veterans and their
wives, accompanied by the
Mayor of Lawrenceburg,
IN, and several guests, were
treated to a three-day Honor
Trip to the Shanksville, PA
and Washington D.C. War
Memorials. We were able to
view and remember the wars/
campaigns that led up to these
memorials being placed. As
an Air Force retiree and Viet
Nam Combat Veteran, my
wife Jan and I were invited to
participate in this trip. What
an honor!
In Shanksville, PA, several
veterans expressed close ties to
some of the victims of Flight
93. Sadness brought these
veterans together at this site.
Inside the museum, we were
able to see pictures of each
passenger and crew member
on Flight 93. We also listened
to numerous cell phone conversations
between the passengers
and their loved ones.
While touring the site of the
memorial, we saw the actual
spot, marked by a large granite
rock, where Flight 93 crashed.
In Arlington, VA, we visited
the U.S. Marine Corps War
Memorial commemorating the
many battles and campaigns
of the U.S. Marine Corps.
The memorial highlights the
raising of the Flag over Mt.
Suribachi, Iwo Jima. However,
every battle/campaign in
which the Corps fought since
the beginning of the United
States is listed on the memorial.
The stop was especially
moving for the four Marines
among us.
We then traveled to Washington,
DC to visit the various
war memorials. Our first stop
was the WWII War Memorial.
This large memorial depicts
both the land battles in the
European/Middle East/African
Theater and the battles/
campaigns in the Pacific Theater.
It has great significance
to all veterans as this is the
war in which our fathers and
grandfathers fought.
Next we visited the Korean
War Memorial. We could feel
the extreme cold and anguish
our fighting troops endured.
Many of our fathers were engaged
in this “Police Action,”
i.e. War.
From the Korean War
Memorial, we walked to
The Vietnam War Memorial,
known simply as “The Wall.”
As Vietnam Veterans, this
memorial was our place to remember
our brothers-in-arms
who were lost in Vietnam. I
observed many of the Veterans
making rubbings of the
names of their lost brothersin-arms,
the toll it took on
them etched upon their faces.
The Army veterans were
extremely pleased to visit
the “Three Soldier Statue”
located near “The Wall.”
Our next stop brought us to
Arlington National Cemetery,
Robert E. Lee’s pre-Civil War
estate. Watching the changing
of the Guards at the Tomb
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of the Unknown Soldier is
an awe-inspiring event. Paul
(P.G.) Gentry had arranged for
four members of our group to
place wreaths at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier. These
members were Tim Halloran,
Brandon Lorton, Bill Cherry,
and Ron Spurlock. The service
was the highlight of the
trip for all of us but especially
these four veterans.
Our next stop found us at
the U.S. Air Force Memorial,
a glittering mass of spirals
reaching into the air like jets
streaming above. Five Air
Force veterans, including myself,
were a part of the group.
We all relished in our glory at
the sight of the memorial.
As the trip wound down,
we made one last stop at the
National Air Museum Annex,
Dulles Airport, VA.
Many aged aircraft were
on display including several
WWII German aircraft. What
a neat way to end an exciting
weekend.
Special thanks go out to the
City of Lawrenceburg, IN,
Mayor Kelly Mollaun, and the
City Council for sponsoring
this Honor Trip.
A great big “Shout Out” is
owed to Paul “P.G.” Gentrup
for planning and coordinating
all aspects of this trip.
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