St. Anthony Hospital unveiled Friday a new $30 million, 70,000-square-foot surgery center named in honor of longtime hospital volunteer Margaret Vessels Love and adorned with 21st-century high-tech features.

The hospital dedicated the fifth-floor Margaret Vessels Love Surgery Center in a late-afternoon ceremony attended by her children and grandchildren, who donated $500,000 to the center in her honor.

The ceremony was held next to one of the most striking features of the center, a rooftop outdoor area called Margaret's Garden.

Margaret Vessels Love served in the St. Anthony volunteer league for more than 40 years and also was a foundation board member.

"For my dad and mom both, St. Anthony was as a big a part of their life as you can imagine, so this is very appropriate," said Tom Love, an Oklahoma City businessman and son of the late Margaret and Frank Love. "It's really beautiful."

Throughout the surgery center, which contains pre- and post-operative patient rooms, family waiting areas and 15 operating rooms, high-tech touches abound.

For instance, the 15 operating rooms, which range in size from 675 to 900 square feet, are all equipped with multiple flat-screen monitors that can be positioned for viewing from anywhere in the room. The operating rooms also feature cameras, digital imaging equipment and a sound system that includes multiple channels from the XM Satellite Radio system.

As Adrienne Oden, St. Anthony's director of patient care for perioperative services, escorted a pair of visitors into one of the operating rooms, a Fleetwood Mac tune flooded the space.

"We listen to music constantly," Oden said.

Another feature has won high marks from the medical staff, she said: A window in an operating room.

More high-tech features include a huge flat-screen monitor outside the operating area that featured a patient tracking system called Stat-Com.

The Stat-Com screen, which resembles flight information boards at an airport, displays patient names, physicians, staff, operating room numbers and scheduled times. It is similar to a digital traffic director that will help clear an area often congested by staff seeking updates to their schedules, Oden said.

"We do 30, 40, 50 cases a day," Oden said.

A similar board will appear in the family waiting area, but with codes substituting for patient names to protect their privacy, Oden said. Families can receive real-time updates on patient status.

The waiting area also includes a business center equipped with a desktop computer and high-speed connections, as well as a coffee bar. Patients' family members also will receive a pager that will alert them when important information becomes available.

Construction of the new surgery center took about three and a half years from the planning stage until completion, said Joe Hodges, the hospital's president.

"In order to make room for this, we had to move some units off this floor," Hodges said. "That included the rehabilitation unit, the new dialysis unit and the medical staff library."

New space for those units had to be constructed, as well, he said.

The "wow" factor was high Friday as dedication ceremony guests toured the surgery center, he said. Even the medical staff were awed by the new space.

"The medical staff are astounded at the size of the ORs," Hodges said. "Most of them were part of the planning process. But until you visualize it and see that what you have been talking about is actually there..."

The surgery center will be officially opened for patient and physician use on Sept. 18, Hodges said.