The Mercy Hospital Foundation Iowa City is excited to announce the return of Love Lights, a holiday tradition for many southeastern Iowans and their loved ones. This year marks 34^th anniversary of the tree lighting ceremony. 

The event will be held virtually online Monday, December 6, at 5:30 p.m., keeping with current safe social distancing practices in mind. It will also air on KCRG 9.2 on December 22 at 7 p.m. After the success of last year’s virtual event, organizing leaders felt it was important to continue this tradition virtually.

“We are thrilled to provide the entire splendor of Love Lights with a 30-minute video inclusive of all the music, the lighting of the trees and candles along with messages of hope honoring those that have touched our community from the comfort of their own home,” said Lisa Steigleder, president of the Mercy Hospital Foundation Iowa City. 

All 2021 Love Lights donations will support the current needs of Mercy Iowa City and its patients, such as cardiac care, cancer care, mammography and more.  

The video will be available on both Mercy Iowa City’s Facebook page and Mercy Iowa City’s YouTube page. To donate to Mercy Hospital Foundation - Iowa City, visit https://mercyiowacity.planmylegacy.org/.

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About Mercy Iowa City

Mercy Iowa City is an acute care hospital and regional referral center for southeast Iowa. Mercy has received: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 5 Star Rating as a Top 2% of all hospitals for the fifth consecutive year, the only hospital in Iowa to do so; the Fortune IBM/Watson Health 100 Top Hospital ranking; the accredited Chest Pain Center with the American Heart Association Gold Plus Achievement Award for Stroke Care; the Top 100 Community Hospitals Award in 2018 and 2019 from Becker’s Review; the Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award for Mercy’s Emergency Care Unit by achieving 95 percent for patient experience for 13 consecutive years; and the Center of Distinction Award from Healogics for Mercy’s Wound and Vein Center. Mercy has 194 acute care beds, 25 private rooms for outpatient surgery, a 26-bed nursery with Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, 28 primary and specialty care clinics, a medical staff of 250 physicians representing all major medical specialties and most subspecialties, and 1,350 employees. It was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1873 and became an affiliate of MercyOne in 2017. To learn more visit www.mercyiowacity.org.