Gundersen Health System buys part of Century Link building
Photo from December 2019
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - Gundersen Health System has purchased part of the former Century Link building in downtown La Crosse.
The deal was finalized in late December with The Weber Group, the current owners of the building.
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Scott Rathgaber, the CEO of Gundersen Health System, said, Investments that provide opportunities for future local business expansion and benefit the community are core ideals for The Weber Group and Gundersen Health System. Our approach and vision are very similar: “Leave this place better than we found it.” (The Weber Group) “We will enhance the health and well-being of our communities, while enriching every life we touch, including patients, families, and staff.” (Gundersen)
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) Gundersen Health System has bought part of the CenturyLink regional headquarters in downtown La Crosse from The Weber Group in what Gundersen CEO Scott Rathgaber described as a dovetailing of their ideals.
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“Investments that provide opportunities for future local business expansion and benefit the community are core ideals for The Weber Group and Gundersen Health System,” Rathgaber said Tuesday of the health system’s purchase of three floors of the seven-story building in December.
“Our approach and vision are very similar,” Rathgaber said in a prepared statement, adding:
• “Leave this place better than we found it,” which is The Weber Group’s mantra.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services reported 120 new deaths Tuesday, the most single-day deaths since the pandemic began. However, the path out of the pandemic begins in La Crosse this week. A COVID-19 vaccine was received by healthcare workers at Gundersen Health System Tuesday.
“I am just incredibly grateful for this moment, this day,” Dr. Elizabeth Cogbill of Gundersen Health System.
The finish line to this exhausting race cannot be seen without the start of its solution.
“This is the shot of hope after months and months of walking this journey,” Cogbill said, who leads Gundersen’s long term care team.
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