Grandview Hospital, Inc., operated in La Crosse, Wis., from 1914 to 1969. An affiliated clinic and nurses training program were also a part of the hospital’s history.
Dr. William A. Henke began private practice in La Crosse in a downtown office in 1911. By 1914, he and his wife Beulah had purchased two lots on Main Street for their hospital. Soon after Grandview opened, it was filled to capacity. Additions in 1917 and 1921 expanded the hospital. A remodeling project was completed in 1925 and another addition done in 1926. A new nurses’ home, connected by an underground tunnel to the hospital, was completed in 1921. The Henke Clinic soon moved into the hospital space in 1926.
The Grandview Nursing School became a victim of the Depression and closed in 1934. In 1940, Henke decided he wanted to be released of the day-to-day operations of the hospital and wanted to return to clinical duties. Unfortunately, Henke suffered a fatal heart attack the night before the hospital was to be turned over to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, the operators of the St. Francis Hospital.
After Henke’s death the hospital suffered and was eventually closed in 1969. The Clinic merged with Skemp Clinic.
