LL Bean Gift Helps Mercy Hospital Complete Capital Campaign

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Charlie Therrien, President of Northern Light Health, at a Vaccination Clinic, at the Portland Expo, Last Year.

Northern Light Mercy Hospital announced earlier this week it has completed its One Mercy capital campaign to support its recent consolidation to an expanded health care campus along Fore River Parkway.  A $500,000 gift from L.L. Bean was the capstone that helped Mercy Hospital bring the 5-year campaign to a close.

More than 1,000 individuals, employees, foundations, corporations and grateful patients joined L.L. Bean to help Mercy complete the largest capital campaign in the hospital’s 103-year history according to a press release issued on Monday, January 10, 2022.

The successful conclusion of the capital campaign coincides with the final department move from Mercy’s State Street Hospital.  Last week, Mercy’s new emergency department opened at the Fore River Campus, marking the official closure of the State Street Hospital to patients.

“This capital campaign was an outsanding community effort,” said Charlie Therrien, President of Mercy Hospital.  “We’re thankful to L.L. Bean for their remarkable gift and we’re deeply grateful to every single donor who made an investment, big and small, in the compassionate and high-quality care we provide to our patients.”

In the spring of 2020, Mercy broke ground on an $138 million consolidation project to enhance patient access to more medical services in one convenient location.  Mercy’s Fore River Parkway campus expansion includes nearly 90,000 sq. ft. of new construction, including an emergency department, additional private patient rooms and the Lunder Building which is now home to a new outpatient speciality and surgery center.