Events

Family Birth Center Unveiled
Mercy Hospital Cadillac welcomed a new member to the Mercy family on July 12, 2001. The Family Birth Center was unveiled for the Cadillac community at 5 pm on Thursday July 12, 2001. "The OB renovations were designed around family centered care, involving both nurses and doctors in the design process," stated John MacLeod, Mercy Hospital Cadillac CEO. Mercy Hospital Cadillac has been involved in a $3 million capital campaign since June of 2000, which concluded in November 2001.

"The Family Birth Center is a $2 million project that will provide a family centered birthing experience," continued MacLeod. The former OB unit was on two separate floors at Mercy Hospital. Labor and birth took place on one floor, then the mother and baby moved to a second floor where they completed their stay. With the new Family Birth Center, everyone is able to stay on one floor. Moms are admitted to and give birth in a homelike Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum room (LDRP) and stay the whole time in one room. The new unit contains six LDRP rooms. One of the LDRP room's contains a birthing tub, which allows patients to labor and deliver in water. "We held nothing back in our renovation of the Family Birth Center, we want people to feel very comfortable while going through one of the biggest moments in their lives," stated MacLeod.

The OB renovation is only stage one of a two-stage process for Mercy Hospital. The second stage is a $1 million renovation of the Emergency Room. The ER renovations include nearly doubling the size of the current ER. The current facility was designed to handle 8,000 ER visits a year and Mercy is seeing upwards of 18,000 visits per year. A few of the changes slated for the ER renovations are a separate patient entrance, an urgent care area, and a new nuclear medicine camera and area. These are just a few of the changes slated for the new ER. "We are very excited to get the stage two ER renovations started, these renovations are critical to improving the health of the Cadillac community," stated MacLeod.

"We were thrilled that the Cadillac community joined us in welcoming the new Family Birth Center into our Mercy Family," said MacLeod of the nearly 850-person turnout for the Open House. "This reinforced our belief that our community appreciates the facilities we provide, and supports our efforts for creating a healthier community for generations to come."

Campaign for Mercy Cadillac Reaches $3 Million Goal
Thanks to the generosity of the community, Mercy Hospital Cadillac has completed a successful $3 million campaign.

Since June of 2000, the hospital has been raising money to renovate both its Obstetrics Department and its Emergency Room. The total project cost was $3 million — $2 million for the redesign and upgrade of the Obstetrics department and $1 million for the Emergency Room renovations.

A lead gift of $2 million from Mercy's parent company, Trinity Health, left $1 million to be raised locally. The funds that needed to be raised locally were done so by a group of community volunteers and Mercy Hospital Cadillac.

"The OB department and the Emergency Room were in need of renovations. Our community leaders and volunteers saw this, and with relentless energy and commitment they made it happen," said John MacLeod, CEO of Mercy Hospital Cadillac. "With all that has happened, in our community, to see the support that individual community members have shown toward this project has been tremendous. Our community has really shown its support for its local hospital. It really has something to be proud of."

A feasibility study early in the capital campaign process indicated that employees and physicians of Mercy Hospital Cadillac would be major contributors to the campaign. That has happened, with the Mercy employees contributing $70,000 toward the campaign and with 70 percent of the physicians also participating, together raising $250,000. Mercy Hospital Cadillac's Auxiliary was also a major contributor, donating $165,000.

The remainder of the monies needed to complete the $1 million Emergency Room renovation came from individuals and local corporations. "Our local corporations and community members showed us that they truly support and believe in what the hospital does here by contributing to this campaign. The over 450 friends of the hospital are the ones who made this campaign such as success," said Bill Rzepka, Campaign for Mercy Cadillac Tri-Chair.

"With what our community has seen happen locally, it is great to have something like this successful campaign to celebrate," continued Rzepka.

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