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Mercy
Health Center Foundation
Continuing The Legacy
 All for the Littlest Ones Expansion of Mercy’s Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit
Mercy Health Center is well underway with the $8.5-million renovation and
expansion of the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Construction of the 22,580-square-foot project began in the summer of 2008
and is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2009.
 Mercy’s BirthPlace delivered over 3,000 babies last year. One newborn of
every 10 will require special medical attention. That’s when a NICU becomes
a family’s home away from home, striking the crucial balance between
providing critical care for the baby while striving to keep parents and
their newborns together. Planned renovations will increase special care
nursery beds from 28 to 42 in private and semi-private rooms, lactation and
family gathering areas, and state-of-the-art nurses’ stations.
 Mercy has committed to $6 million and hopes the community will join in
raising the other $2.5 million. To date nearly $2.1 of the $2.5 has been
raised for this project by friends of the hospital, co-workers, physicians
and local foundations. The new unit will be located on the fifth floor of
the patient tower. As of February 1, approximately 45% of the framing and
35% of the mechanical, which includes plumbing, heat/air and electric, has
been completed.
For more information about the Mercy NICU or to make a contribution,
contact Jenne Knudsen, Mercy Foundation Annual Giving Manager, at 405.936.5825.
To make an online gift, click the Watch Us Grow logo.
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