There was a party with pink lighting under a tent, a ribbon cutting and an open house.

Now it’s official. The new $24 million Christine E. Lynn Health & Wellness Center is open for business on the campus of Boca Raton Regional Hospital.

“It looks like a spa,” Mayor Susan Haynie said on a tour of the facility after the ribbon cutting Nov. 2 at 690 Meadows Road.

The institute replaces the old facility where women went for mammograms and other imaging. The new one is 46,000 square feet and will test, diagnose and treat women from young adult to later years for breast, pelvic and cardiovascular disease, other medical specialties and services and programs from yoga to massage therapy.

Medical director Kathy Schilling stood quietly in the lobby as small groups took tours of the facility from staff after the ceremonies. She said the new center has been a dream of hers for more than 20 years.

“From day one Dr. Schilling told me we needed a new women’s center, but I put it off until my wife Terry joined the chorus,” hospital president and CEO Jerry Fedele said at the patrons’ event, calling the center “spectacular.”

“We’re finally here,” Schilling told benefactors, doctors and staff. “Our dream came through. The sky’s the limit for what we can do.”

“This will help so many families,” said Christine E. Lynn, hospital board chairwoman, whose $10 million gift initiated the new center construction. She presented the pledge at the late hospital founder Gloria Drummond’s 80th birthday.

Lynn was presented with framed photos of the new women’s center and notes from the staff at the tent event.

Michelle Stallone, a mammogram technician and patient care coordinator, led a small group tour through the first- and second- floor treatment and waiting rooms.

“In our mammography sensory suite you can pick your own scene from a beach, forest or garden and have the sounds and the scent,” she said.

There are private areas for women waiting for the result of a biopsy or “someone who might have felt a lump or have any concerns,” Stallone said.

The center is filled with donated art, there’s a gift shop and a coffee and juice bar was about to go up in the lobby. But Schilling said the beauty is really about diagnosing and treatment women.

“We worked with women who are designers and an architect and they really understood,” Schilling said. “We focused on patient experiences.”