Mercy Momentum is a comprehensive, multi-year plan to meet the growing and evolving health care needs of central Iowans. Mercy Momentum is defining the future of healing by creating health care facilities that are accessible, comfortable and effective healing environments for the patients and families we serve.

While Mercy Momentum includes building expansions, room renovations and technological advancements, Mercy is most interested in the effects the projects have on the delivery of health care and on the patients and families who come to us in need.  Those effects are notably positive because:

• Larger patient rooms and treatment areas better accommodate modern medical technology and provide space for care teams to best address patient needs
• Larger rooms also allow increased family involvement in patients’ care.
• Larger windows ensure more natural sunlight.
• More efficient designs reduce wasted steps and increase the time nurses and others spend in patient care activities. 

All of these and many other innovative, evidence-based designs make profound differences in the quality of care and, ultimately, the quality of people’s lives.

In fiscal year 2007, Mercy celebrated the completion of several major components of the Mercy Momentum plan. These include the completion of the six-story East Tower, and the relocation and renovation of Endoscopy Services on Mercy’s Central Campus.  Elsewhere, Mercy opened the Mercy Jordan Creek Pediatric and Internal Medicine Clinic in West Des Moines, the Mercy Panora Clinic; the Mercy Skywalk Physical Therapy Clinic; and Quick Care clinics in Des Moines area Dahl’s Foods stores.

In addition, many other Mercy Momentum projects are underway or near completion, including the renovation and expansion of the Emergency Department/Trauma Center; the expansion and renovation of the Surgery Department; the expansion of Mercy East in Pleasant Hill; and a variety of campus enhancements. Mercy also is constructing a replacement hospital for Mercy Capitol in West Des Moines, and has started to develop a new Wellness Campus in Clive, which will feature a new satellite facility of the Mercy Cancer Center, an ambulatory surgery center and other state-of-the art facilities.

Through Mercy Momentum, Mercy is fulfilling its promise to central Iowans to deliver the right care, in the right place at the right time.