Love’s opens Family Women’s Center
Published on: Apr 8, 2024
The new facility of the Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City was backed by the retailer as part of the Mercy Health Foundation board.
Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City started a campaign to build a new women’s center in December 2019, which was backed by the matriarch of the Love family, Judy Love.
As Love was part of the Mercy Health Foundation board at the time, she believed the organization had the ability to raise the funds to bring the project into fruition. Both her and late husband Tom Love gave a $10 million lead donation to kick off the project.
In partnership with co-chair and former state first lady Cathy Keating, they helped raise more than $30 million from Oklahoma families and businesses. The facility is called the Love Family Women’s Center and honors four generations of the family.
“Mom and Cathy were very involved in co-chairing a silent campaign to raise funds for this women’s center. Trying to raise $40 million during normal times would have been a lofty goal, but COVID changed a lot and only three months into the campaign. We are very proud of them for dedicating themselves to raising an historic amount of money during a time of economic uncertainty and amid a global pandemic,” explained Jenny Love Meyer, Judy’s daughter and chief culture officer of Love’s.
The facility is a 175,000-square-foot, four-story building on the Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City campus and has 30 patient rooms to accommodate the significant increase in child births. Over the last 10 years, the hospital has experienced a 34 %increase in childbirths, which is nearly 4,000 births each year.
The women’s center will increase the hospital’s delivery capacity by 40%. Its expanded capacity and innovative technology will have a lifelong impact on the community.
