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 more space for care teams to address patient needs.
• Larger rooms also enable increased family involvement in patient 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 2008, Mercy celebrated the complete renovation of its Surgery Department, which increased the number of operating suites from 16 to 18 and upgraded facilities to equip them with premier, state-of-the-art technologies.

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 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 of the Mercy Cancer Center as well as replacement facilities for the Mercy Sleep Center and Ambulatory Surgery.

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