Mercy will celebrate a major construction milestone on a new building to serve women and infants. On Monday, Sept. 26, crews will lift the final steel beams into the frame of the new Love Family Women’s Center currently under construction on the campus of Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City.
Labor and delivery and postpartum services at the hospital have been at capacity for years, limiting Mercy’s ability to serve more patients. When construction is complete in fall 2023, Mercy will have a total of 73 patient rooms to serve women in the new center, increasing capacity for deliveries by 40%.
The 175,000-square-foot building will also feature an obstetrics emergency department and the state’s first hospital-based low intervention birthing unit staffed by certified midwives. It will also serve as a hub for services designed for women of all ages.
The Tom and Judy Love family, for whom the center is named, gave a $10 million lead donation to kick off the project. Event takes place from 10 a.m. on Sept. 26, 2022 at Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, 4300 W. Memorial Blvd. in Oklahoma City. *Look for the tent in the parking lot on the north side of the hospital, west of the visitor entrance.
