Construction workers with tool belts are as common around the hospital as doctors with stethoscopes.
Ambulances glide past flatbed trucks loaded with building materials.
A helipad for helicopter ambulances has been built. The expansion of the hospital reflects the growth of Grant County. As the population has grown, so has the number of patients served at St. Elizabeth, a 30-bed hospital at the end of Barnes Road in Williamstown. Now, we're doing about 12,000 a year, and it just keeps growing. The recent and continuing expansions, however, are not merely a reaction to a decade of growth, said hospital administrator Chris Carle.