{"id":22532,"date":"2025-10-25T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/22532\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:58:07","slug":"mercy-hospital-southwest-unveils-42m-thomas-m-hardt-tower-at-gala-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/22532\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Hospital Southwest unveils $42M Thomas M. Hardt Tower at gala celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Mercy Hospital Southwest celebrated a significant milestone on Friday with a gala hosted by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportfriendsofmercy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Friends of Mercy Foundation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The event offered attendees a sneak peek at the newly constructed Thomas M. Hardt Tower. This new wing features additional hospital beds, operating rooms, an ICU unit, expanded warehouses, and a new inpatient pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/edd52dbf-d8a9-40e8-adfe-4ce82f715dec-Media20251024T200025.068.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d10ec1a7-d5f9-4a14-9b39-1383a2565a68-Media20251024T200011.212.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The tower, which cost $42 million to build, is set to open in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignityhealth.org\/central-california\/locations\/mercy-bakersfield\/mercy-southwest-tower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dignityhealth.org\/mercy-southwest-tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Mercy Hospital Southwest celebrated a significant milestone on Friday with a gala hosted by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-22532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}