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La Crosse County accepts bids to remodel long-time nursing home for new uses
The planned renovation of the Hillview Healthcare Center in La Crosse moved another step forward last week.
The La Crosse County Board voted Thursday to accept construction bids for transforming the center into a multi-use facility that includes bridge housing and an intergenerational daycare.
The plans also include a residential treatment center and a mental health unit.
The county plans to keep the project cost under $19.6 million.
Roughly $12 million of that cost would come from American Rescue Plan Act funding, plus another $8 million borrowed from the county’s general funds.
The overall renovation plan for Hillview, located close to the bluffs near Ward Avenue, was approved by the board almost a year ago, though county officials have been working on plans to modernize it for more than a decade.
walden
August 19, 2024 at 8:58 am
La Crosse doesn’t have enough public housing for the elderly. These folks are routinely moved to facilities in Holmen, Tomah, Sparta, etc. to get a bed.
Who are the idiots on the county board who think its a good idea to allocate elderly housing to the homeless, mixed within the same facility. More millions $ spent on vagrants.
This is a slap in the face to our taxpaying elderly who need care.
The insidiousness of the La Crosse Homeless Industrial Complex will not be denied…we have lost the downtown area and the rest of the City will soon follow, given over to vagrants and social workers.
LG
August 19, 2024 at 2:02 pm
So true Walden.
When my mother‘s dementia progressed combined with a hip fracture, she had to move from memory care, to hospital, to nursing home. No nursing home In lacrosse had room for her. She ended up at rolling hills in Sparta, where she eventually passed. I had to drive to Sparta to see her on a regular basis because there was no room at the nursing homes in La Crosse. And so it goes. Others I have known have had simpler situations with their parents. No nursing Beds in lacrosse, but outlying communities have them. Our liberal county supervisors at work.
Roy
August 20, 2024 at 10:07 am
The liberals on the La Crosse City Council and the La Crosse County Board realize that there is little support for spending public money on squatters. They saw the angry crowd of 200+ that showed up at the recent Council meeting demanding that no squatters be allowed to camp on City property. So, they will attempt less visible projects to achieve their goals of welfare for the squatters. The Hillview project is one of them. Many others will be attempted as the so-called “Pathways Home” welfare project takes shape.
Three of the top women on the County Board are already deeply involved in CouleeCap, an agency that spends public money on welfare cases and know the ins and outs of securing millions of dollars for their liberal pet projects. Conversations on applying this knowledge towards their goals abound outside the Board Room.
As stated above, the ones who lose are elderly who worked all their lives, ask little of us, and are deserving of care in their twilight time.
I can’t imagine these fine people being placed in a small room down the hall from strung-out addicts who are the dregs of society.
nick
August 22, 2024 at 5:11 am
I think every council person who wants to have vagrants in a. Urging home should take one into their own home.
How stupid are these people
walden
August 22, 2024 at 12:56 pm
Nick, they are not just stupid. They have an actual goal…to build the Homeless Industrial Complex to such a level that it will be impossible to dismantle. The City, County, School District and dozens of “non-profits” (many redundant) employ a hundred social workers, coordinators, grant seekers and managers, luncheon goers, etc., and they will “fight” (the Libs go-to word) to defend the presence of the vagrants and promote the resiliency (Lib go-to word #2) of their own empire.
Voters need to wake up. This is costing many millions $ each year.