Green Bay hospital reopens after water main break

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - A Green Bay hospital has reopened after a water main break shut down the heat and forced the transfer of about 50 patients.

Press-Gazette Media (http://gbpg.net/1xUXSM3) reports St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center reopened Sunday, a day after the break caused flooding in the basement and shut down the boiler.

Dr. Ken Johnson, the hospital's chief physician executive, says the hospital used 12 ambulances to transfer patients to St. Vincent Hospital. Johnson says patients included new mothers and newborns to people recovering from surgery.

Johnson says patients were never in danger, and the transfers were done in an orderly manner.

St. Mary's chief operating officer Larry Connors says the cause of the main break hasn't been determined.

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Information from: Press-Gazette Media, http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com