LDS Hospital to Celebrate Opening of New Blood Cancer Clinic on Thursday; Announces $1.5 million Donation to Expand Clinic

WHAT:

LDS Hospital will celebrate the grand opening of the new Loveland Clinic for Blood Cancer Therapy on Thursday. 

The clinic is made possible by a generous $1.5 million donation by the James B. and Lynnette Loveland Family Foundation, which helped support the construction and expansion of the new 9,000 square-foot clinic.

The clinic features beautifully finished areas where patients will receive treatment related to their cancer diagnoses including 13 spacious new clinic rooms, a large infusion center with 11 beds for chemotherapy administration, and an expanded apheresis center where blood stem cells are collected from donors.

The clinic will welcome an average of 27 patients per day and will serve blood and marrow transplant and acute leukemia patients and their donors throughout the Intermountain West.

James and Lynnette Loveland — founders of the computer software company Xactware in Orem — have spent a lifetime sharing their blessings. They’re the namesake for the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper and have spent countless hours serving on community boards and non-profits.

However, tragedy struck in 2003 when James Loveland fell ill during a family trip to Lake Powell and was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. He passed away in June 2005. Since that time, Lynnette has long felt gratitude to LDS Hospital’s Blood and Marrow Transplant/Acute Leukemia team for the care they provided James and her family during the last nine months of his life, which is the basis for her gift to expand the clinic and make it a beautiful, safe, comfortable place for patients, like her husband, to receive care.

“I identify with the people who are going through the same experience James and I went through,” says Lynnette. “If I can help make that experience better by improving the clinic, that’s my passion and I know Jim would be proud of that legacy.”

The open house will also honor Dana Pollack, a blood and marrow transplant survivor who received care in the clinic and who is being honored by a gift from the Carlene and Jay Williams family. The clinic’s waiting room will be named in Dana’s honor.

WHERE:         

LDS Hospital Loveland Clinic for Blood Cancer Therapy
8^th Avenue & C Street – 7^th Floor
Salt Lake City, UT

WHEN:           

4 p.m., Thursday, November 12