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Impact Report: 5 years later

Individuals wearing white hardhats throw shovels of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for Cambridge Tower A

Timeline to transformation

Cambridge Tower A has come a long way since Deanna and Greg Graves announced their $1 million gift to launch the campaign in February 2014. Revisit the tower's transformation from announcement to where it is today.

    • February – Deanna and Greg Graves, campaign chairs, announce $1 million gift to launch the campaign. Greg announces $2.5 million donation from the Burns & McDonnell Foundation.
    • June – The Sunderland Foundation donates $2 million to support the construction of Cambridge Tower A.
    • November – Annette Bloch commits $10 million in a dollar-for-dollar challenge.
    • March – We celebrate the groundbreaking of Cambridge Tower A.
    • November – Health system employees look on as the last beam is placed.
    • June – Kansas City’s largest parking structure opens, linking 2,069 parking spaces to Cambridge Tower A.
    • July – iMRI lifted into 3rd level of Cambridge Tower A, which houses the region’s only intraoperative MRI located adjacent to the surgical suite. iMRI suite made possible by John W. and Effie E. Speas Memorial Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, and Frank L. and Evangeline Thompson.
    • October – Cheryl Lockton Williams makes $10 million gift and dedicates the Jack and Cheryl Lockton Intensive Care Unit.
    • November – Cambridge Tower A opens.
    • April – The Richard and Annette Bloch Medical Oncology Patient Care Unit opens.
    • September – The Sunderland Foundation donates $66 million to complete Cambridge Tower A and surpass the $100 million campaign goal.
    • Research and design for the future home of our hematologic malignancies, blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapeutics program begins.
    • March – The first COVID-19 patient is admitted to The University of Kansas Health System.
    • December – We celebrate the ribbon cutting of Cambridge Tower A levels 8, 9 and 10. Less than a week later, the first 70 patients transfer to their new rooms using the Burns & McDonnell pedestrian bridge. The opening adds 100 beds to inpatient capacity and advances our health system’s Kansas City division beyond the 1,000-bed milestone — to 1,045 — elevating us to the nation’s 40 largest hospitals per number of beds, according to Becker’s Hospital Review.
    • June – In less than 6 months, more than 2,000 patients have been discharged from the new levels in Cambridge Tower A.
    • December – The tower has been open and fully operational for 1 year.
    • February – Nearly 40,000 (39,990) patients have been seen, treated and discharged from Cambridge Tower A since its doors opened.

The transformation at Cambridge Tower A between 2014 and 2023 has surpassed huge — it's lifechanging — and it wouldn't have been possible without your support. Thank you.

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