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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.

The new Mercy West Lakes Hospital in West Des Moines is quickly approaching completion, but someone really needs to explain why they chose to add a gigantic four-story, brightly-lit cross to the side of the building. Yes, the cross is stylized in the Mercy fashion, but for heaven's sake (pun intended), why did they make the thing so large? Count the number of levels for yourself: It covers four complete levels of the building, and faces out into traffic along 60th Street and Westown Parkway. At such a height, it dwarfs everything around, except for the hospital itself. The Hy-Vee corporate offices across the street are only two stories tall. The cross is just too large, and it's undoubtedly going to create traffic accidents. Mercy is an excellent medical center in its own right; this kind of advertising (if that's what it's supposed to be) doesn't befit the standards of the organization itself.