Mercy West Lakes opens

Mercy has opened its new West Lakes hospital, and so far, they've been behaving and keeping the lights off that form a gigantic white cross on the side of the building. Their cooperation in keeping things toned down will be much appreciated. The presence of two new west-side hospitals (Methodist West opens next month) ought to be mostly beneficial to the area, since it moves high-quality health-care service closer to the ever-growing west-side population, but it remains to be seen how the air and ground ambulance services will add to the noise in the area. It's a new thing to have helipads in West Des Moines.