Community Hospital and Community Hospital Health Foundation, top, officials drive loaders across the parking lot to open the groundbreaking ceremony for the hospital's new rehabilitation center. Breaking ground, clockwise from above -- and fighting with sun-baked ground and stubborn dirt clods -- are, from left, Kenneth Bracht, chairman of the Community Hospital's board of directors; Robert Stamm, chairman of the Community Hospital Health Foundation board of directors; Jim Ulrich, Community Hospital's chief operating office; and Gary Bieganski, Community Hospital's president. Community Hospital President Gary Bieganski, above left, quotes an Arabian proverb -- "He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything" -- as he speaks about the health, healing and hope that will be provided by the hospital's new rehab center. Terri Shipshock, executive director of the Community Hospital Health Foundation, welcomes visitors to a "truly momentous occasion," the groundbreaking of the hospital's new rehab center, made possible, she said, by gifts from very generous donors and supporters of the Hospital and Foundation. John J. Berge, district manager in Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson's Scottsbluff office, read a letter from the Senator, who called Community Hospital, its staff and collaborators role models, pioneering a National Incident Management System for natural disaster preparedness; hosting career days for students; and providing progressive thinking in the vital field of healthcare. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette)
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