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Wells Fargo contributes $50,000 to Owatonna Hospital’s Expanding the Dream Campaign
OWATONNA, Minn. 11/20/2008--Wells Fargo has announced a donation of $50,000 to Owatonna Hospital’s Expanding the Dream campaign. Their contribution will broaden the hospital's healing environment by enhancing the Outdoor Healing Garden and Outdoor Walking Path.
The Outdoor Healing Garden, located on the northeast side of the building, surrounds an outdoor pavilion area, providing a calming space for hospital visitors, patients and staff to experience without having to leave the hospital grounds. Their gift will also improve landscaping efforts along portions of the Outdoor Walking Path, which will be open to the public. Improvements will include native plants, trees and other greenery.
The Expanding the Dream campaign is a community venture launched in 2007 to fund special features of the new hospital, which were identified as important during community forums and an online survey. These special features include the Owatonna Commons, an Indoor Walking Path, a Community Resource Center, a Professional Education Center, a Reflection Center and the Center for Health and Wellness. These special features have been exclusively funded through philanthropic donations from community members and local businesses. One hundred percent of the donations to the Expanding the Dream campaign are being used to fund the special features. To view the full listing of contributors to the Expanding the Dream Campaign, visit www.owatonnahospital.com, select Foundation, Our Benefactors.
"The new hospital is an important enhancement to the health of our community," said Brad Peters, Community Banking president for Wells Fargo in Owatonna."Wells Fargo has a long history and strong commitment to community involvement and giving in Owatonna, and we’re excited about the opportunity to support our community through this great initiative."
The total value of the new not-for-profit hospital construction project is $51.6 million. Allina Hospitals & Clinics is fully funding the construction of the replacement hospital, which is expected to open in October 2009.
About Owatonna Hospital
The new Owatonna Hospital will be connected to the current Owatonna Clinic-Mayo Health System 26th Street location, off Interstate 35, creating a health care campus. The facility will be designed to create an environment for providing high quality, safe, patient-centered care for residents in the region.
Owatonna Hospital and Allina Hospitals & Clinics are taking a leadership role to promote healthy eating and physical activity through their heart healthy living and obesity initiatives with an emphasis on childhood obesity. Over the next five years, Allina and Owatonna Hospital will be working with community organizations to improve nutrition and increase physical activity to decrease obesity and improve heart health.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo in Minnesota provides financial services from 245 locations and employs approximately 20,000 team members. Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $622 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance through almost 6,000 stores and the internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America and internationally. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is the only bank in the U.S., and one of only two banks worldwide, to have the highest possible credit rating from both Moody’s Investors Service, "Aaa," and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, "AAA."
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Expanding the Dream capital campaign
Our Benefactors
New Owatonna Hospital
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