Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines is using an eight-point-five million dollar gift to establish a women’s health center.
The money comes from the family of the late Frank Comfort and will help start a medical center in Clive dedicated to women in mid-life or older.
The facility will be known as the Mercy Comfort Women’s Center and is expected to open in early 2017.
The gift from the Comfort Family Foundation is the largest family gift in Mercy history.