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Kirby Hospital taking steps to serve Monticello long into future

By Debra Pressey
Sunday August 17, 2008

Robert K. O'Daniell

CEO Steve Tenhouse ing the emergency area at John and Mary E. Kirby Hospital in Monticello.

MONTICELLO – Not long ago, folks in Galena would bypass their own little hospital and travel to Dubuque, Iowa, for their medical care.

And with no surgery and no MRI in town, many of them had to.

"Now we're seeing that reversed," said Galena's Midwest Medical Center CEO Jeff Hill. "They're staying here for their care, for a lot of good reasons."

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