Mercy Medical launches $15 million capital campaign
Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- Mercy Medical Center -- Sioux City will begin a $15 million capital campaign today to build a new Intensive Care Unit, establish a cardiac electrophysiology lab and bring a da Vinci surgical robot to the area.
Officials of Mercy Medical Center Foundation said they have already secured more than $10.4 million toward the campaign's $15 million goal.
Titled "Your Community, Your Health, Your Hospital: The Mercy Campaign for Siouxland," the fundraising effort is the first major capital campaign undertaken by the medical center in its 118-year history.
Drs. Diane Werth and Allan Manalan and Carla and Dr. Gregg Galloway are chairpersons for the campaign. A cabinet of about 50 volunteers is working on the fundraising drive which is being overseen by the Mercy Medical Center Foundation.
Regina Roth, BPI executive vice president and honorary chair for the campaign, said the philanthropic effort marks a milestone for Mercy Medical Center.
"For well over a century, Mercy's mission of working with others to provide quality health care with compassion and respect for all has been witnessed by the Siouxland community," Roth said. "Along with quality patient care by physicians and medical professionals, Mercy must provide adequate facilities and seek technological advances for Siouxland. The ability to provide these needed services at home negating families traveling to other regional facilities provides the basis for Mercy's first capital campaign."
The campaign will fund three major projects at Mercy, including the construction of a $10 million intensive care unit. To accommodate that new 6,000 square foot facility, a sixth-floor will be added to the Mercy Heart Center building.
Mercy officials said the new ICU would create a patient-centered healing environment with the most advanced monitoring technology. Twenty private rooms will be constructed. The renovation of the existing ICU on the fifth floor of Mercy's south hospital building will create new space for the Cardiovascular Care Unit.
Construction on the new sixth floor of the Mercy Heart Center is expected to start this summer.
Another $5 million from the campaign is earmarked for technological enhancements. Mercy plans to purchase a high-tech da Vinci surgical robot which is predominantly used for urological and gynecological surgical procedures. The precision offered by the surgical robot allows for less invasive surgery which reduces discomfort and scarring and improves overall recovery.
The campaign also will establish a cardiac electrophysiology lab in the Heart Center. Cardiac electrophysiology is the study of the heart's electrical system. EP procedures include pacemaker and ICD (implantable cardiac defibrillator) implantation, diagnostic and interventional studies, cardiac mapping and ablation (a process that disrupts faulty electrical signals in the heart).
Neither the advanced da Vinci technology nor the specialized EP equipment are currently available in the Sioux City area.
"Our partnership with the community to improve the quality of health care is our No. 1 goal," explained Dr. Gregg Galloway, Mercy pathologist and board member.
Fellow campaign chairpersons, Drs. Werth and Manalan, retired cardiologists, said they were honored to assist with Mercy's community-oriented campaign.
"We have been blessed to practice medicine in this community with such wonderful patients and co-workers," Werth stated. "This campaign will enhance facilities and incorporate technological advances to benefit that same community."
In initiating the campaign, Verna Welte, chairperson of the Mercy Medical Center Foundation said "a gift to Mercy is a gift to Siouxland, a community that prides itself on taking care of its own. This community partnership will help Mercy and Sioux City remain the center for health care excellence in the region."
Mercy cares for more critically ill or injured patients than any other hospital in western Iowa. Nearly 1,100 people were treated at the hospital's regional Level II trauma center last year.
Currently ranked No. 1 in Iowa for cardiac services, coronary interventional procedures, cardiology services and heart surgery, Mercy performs more cardiac interventional procedures than any other hospital in western Iowa.
Mercy President and CEO Paul Dougherty expressed his appreciation to Siouxland residents who will support the campaign.
"There is a lot of community involvement in this effort and it reflects a strong will in the community to sustain world class care at Mercy and in the Sioux City area," Dougherty said.
For more information about the Mercy Campaign for Siouxland, contact Lea Clausen, executive director of the Mercy Medical Center Foundation, at (712) 279-2475.
Clausen said several naming opportunities would be available in the new ICU, Cardiovascular Care Unit and EP lab for benefactors who would like to remember loved ones with their gifts.
Program is today
Mercy Medical Center -- Sioux City will begin a $15 million capital campaign at a special event from 5 to 7 p.m. today on the fourth floor of Mercy Heart Center. There will be a brief "kickoff" program at 6 p.m. Regina Roth, honorary campaign chairperson, and Debi Durham, Siouxland Chamber of Commerce president, will speak.
Architect's renderings of the new ICU facility will be unveiled and live demonstrations of the da Vinci surgical robot will be presented.
Officials of Mercy Medical Center Foundation said they have already secured more than $10.4 million toward the campaign's $15 million goal.
Titled "Your Community, Your Health, Your Hospital: The Mercy Campaign for Siouxland," the fundraising effort is the first major capital campaign undertaken by the medical center in its 118-year history.
Drs. Diane Werth and Allan Manalan and Carla and Dr. Gregg Galloway are chairpersons for the campaign. A cabinet of about 50 volunteers is working on the fundraising drive which is being overseen by the Mercy Medical Center Foundation.
Regina Roth, BPI executive vice president and honorary chair for the campaign, said the philanthropic effort marks a milestone for Mercy Medical Center.
"For well over a century, Mercy's mission of working with others to provide quality health care with compassion and respect for all has been witnessed by the Siouxland community," Roth said. "Along with quality patient care by physicians and medical professionals, Mercy must provide adequate facilities and seek technological advances for Siouxland. The ability to provide these needed services at home negating families traveling to other regional facilities provides the basis for Mercy's first capital campaign."
The campaign will fund three major projects at Mercy, including the construction of a $10 million intensive care unit. To accommodate that new 6,000 square foot facility, a sixth-floor will be added to the Mercy Heart Center building.
Mercy officials said the new ICU would create a patient-centered healing environment with the most advanced monitoring technology. Twenty private rooms will be constructed. The renovation of the existing ICU on the fifth floor of Mercy's south hospital building will create new space for the Cardiovascular Care Unit.
Construction on the new sixth floor of the Mercy Heart Center is expected to start this summer.
Another $5 million from the campaign is earmarked for technological enhancements. Mercy plans to purchase a high-tech da Vinci surgical robot which is predominantly used for urological and gynecological surgical procedures. The precision offered by the surgical robot allows for less invasive surgery which reduces discomfort and scarring and improves overall recovery.
The campaign also will establish a cardiac electrophysiology lab in the Heart Center. Cardiac electrophysiology is the study of the heart's electrical system. EP procedures include pacemaker and ICD (implantable cardiac defibrillator) implantation, diagnostic and interventional studies, cardiac mapping and ablation (a process that disrupts faulty electrical signals in the heart).
Neither the advanced da Vinci technology nor the specialized EP equipment are currently available in the Sioux City area.
"Our partnership with the community to improve the quality of health care is our No. 1 goal," explained Dr. Gregg Galloway, Mercy pathologist and board member.
Fellow campaign chairpersons, Drs. Werth and Manalan, retired cardiologists, said they were honored to assist with Mercy's community-oriented campaign.
"We have been blessed to practice medicine in this community with such wonderful patients and co-workers," Werth stated. "This campaign will enhance facilities and incorporate technological advances to benefit that same community."
In initiating the campaign, Verna Welte, chairperson of the Mercy Medical Center Foundation said "a gift to Mercy is a gift to Siouxland, a community that prides itself on taking care of its own. This community partnership will help Mercy and Sioux City remain the center for health care excellence in the region."
Mercy cares for more critically ill or injured patients than any other hospital in western Iowa. Nearly 1,100 people were treated at the hospital's regional Level II trauma center last year.
Currently ranked No. 1 in Iowa for cardiac services, coronary interventional procedures, cardiology services and heart surgery, Mercy performs more cardiac interventional procedures than any other hospital in western Iowa.
Mercy President and CEO Paul Dougherty expressed his appreciation to Siouxland residents who will support the campaign.
"There is a lot of community involvement in this effort and it reflects a strong will in the community to sustain world class care at Mercy and in the Sioux City area," Dougherty said.
For more information about the Mercy Campaign for Siouxland, contact Lea Clausen, executive director of the Mercy Medical Center Foundation, at (712) 279-2475.
Clausen said several naming opportunities would be available in the new ICU, Cardiovascular Care Unit and EP lab for benefactors who would like to remember loved ones with their gifts.
Program is today
Mercy Medical Center -- Sioux City will begin a $15 million capital campaign at a special event from 5 to 7 p.m. today on the fourth floor of Mercy Heart Center. There will be a brief "kickoff" program at 6 p.m. Regina Roth, honorary campaign chairperson, and Debi Durham, Siouxland Chamber of Commerce president, will speak.
Architect's renderings of the new ICU facility will be unveiled and live demonstrations of the da Vinci surgical robot will be presented.
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Dan wrote on Feb 12, 2008 4:58 PM:
Hey, I need a new car, maybe I should have a fundraiser?
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