A door closes...
(Talk of the Town photo by Jennifer Zartman Romano)
For 60 years, the now former Parkview Whitley Hospital building on North Oak Street in Columbia City served patients through all the stages in their lives -- from babies born each day to grandparents departing this life. The building opened in April of 1951, leaving behind an "old" hospital -- the Linvill Hospital -- which still stands at the corner of East Van Buren and Whitley Streets in Columbia City. Today, Thursday, October 20, 2011, the last patient left the building. A fence has been erected around most of the facility and signs have been posted to warn would-be patient that care is now available at the new facility located on the corner of SR 205 and US 30. Items will continue to be removed from the facility over the next several days.