Mendota Community Hospital celebrated 60 years of providing healthcare to the area last Friday by serving punch, cake & ice cream in the hospital’s dining room for employees and the public. 

Board members (l-r) Steve Gahan, Dan Doyle, Keri Sundberg, and Bill Gehant help MCH’s Chief Excecutive Officer, Lynn Klein, (2nd from right) blow out the 60 lit candles. 

Mendota Community Hospital, which opened its doors on June 10 1951, was a building that grew out of the dreams and hopes of the townspeople who saw a tremendous need for larger, more adequate medical facilities, at the time, for the community.  All funds required to build the original hospital building were donated by residents, former residents, business owners, and corporations located in Mendota and the surrounding communities.  It was in every sense a community project. 

Today the building seen on the hospital’s campus includes the original hospital and four building additions.  Mendota Community Hospital will continue to serve the area in its new facility currently nearing completion on East 12th Street.   Once again, to accommodate new technology and services, the hospital had a need to construct a new facility.  The new hospital facility is opening this fall.