Gundersen Health System celebrates new hospital in Whitehall

WHITEHALL – It had been more than 60 years since the residents in Whitehall and throughout the surrounding counties – Trempealeau, Jackson and Buffalo – have seen a new hospital.

That changed when Gundersen Health System built a new, state-of-the-art hospital at 18601 Lincoln St. in Whitehall.

The new hospital, Joni Olson, administrator at Gundersen Tri-County Hospital, said sits on the same site as the previous building.

“We owned enough property and footprint (on the site) to build the replacement hospital on the same property next to where the old hospital was – the previous hospital on site was razed and torn down last fall,” she said.