Hannon Tower Set to Open in Early March
 Little Company of Mary Hospital's new patient care building, the Hannon Tower, is well on its way to completion. Due to open in early March 2002, the new five-level tower represents a major step forward in the future of health care in Southern California. The new patient care tower, along with related new buildings, landscaping and improved traffic access, is part of a master plan called Little Company of Mary Hospital Plaza.
The Plaza is designed to bring together compassionate caring and state-of-the-art capabilities in one healing environment. From lush landscaping, serene meditation gardens and open courtyards bathed in natural light to warmly decorated private rooms, a four-story glass forum and a cascading indoor waterfall, the Little Company of Mary Hospital Plaza represents a carefully considered shift from the typical hospital environment of the past.
Located southwest of the current Little Company of Mary Hospital building, the new tower will add a total of 116,767 gross square feet of building area to the hospital. It will house a new Emergency Department, Critical Care Center, Women's Health Center and enhanced general acute medical and surgical care beds. It has been carefully designed to meet California seismic regulations that must be implemented by the year 2008.
The Hannon Tower is named in honor of William H. Hannon, noted land development entrepreneur and philanthropist who died in November 1999. Hannon's generous contributions to Little Company of Mary Hospital made Hannon the hospital's largest benefactor in its 40-year history. Hannon earlier donated $1 million to the project to name the new Critical Care Center in memory of his mother, Eugenie B. Hannon.
Campaign 2000, the largest fund-raising effort in Little Company of Mary Hospital history, helped make this ambitious $76 million project possible. In addition to the original $1 million contribution, the Hannon family has donated an additional $3 million to help equip and furnish the facility. Hundreds of other individuals, companies and foundations joined the Hannon family and together, another $6 million was contributed to Campaign 2000 to help finance the expansion.
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