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Mercy is an American nonprofit Catholic healthcare organization founded in 1871 by the Sisters of Mercy. [1] It is located in the Midwestern United States with headquarters within Greater St. Louis in the west St. Louis County, Missouri suburb of Chesterfield. Mercy is the seventh largest Catholic health care system in the United States. [2]
The Mercy Sisters worked as trained nurses during the Civil War, and after the war they took on the work of public health care. Need for expansion led to the Sisters of Mercy opening a 50-bed Mercy Hospital facility in Janesville in 1913, which eventually grew through renovation into a 150-bed facility by 1920.
MercyOne (formerly Mercy Health Network) is an American non-profit system of hospitals, clinics, and health care facilities in the U.S. states of Iowa, [1] Nebraska and surrounding communities. It is run under a joint operating agreement between Catholic Health Initiatives and Trinity Health . [ 2 ]
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On September 1, 2018, Bon Secours and Mercy Health combined to become the United States' fifth largest Catholic health care ministry and one of the nation's 20 largest health care systems. [1] The two systems and their hospitals retained their pre-merger names and branding. [2] The full name of the combined health system is Bon Secours Mercy ...
Founded in 1893 at the corner of 8th and Main Street in Davenport, St. Luke's Hospital mainly acted as an emergency care facility. [3] In 1914, St. Luke's relocated to East Rusholme Street, the current location of Genesis Medical Center, East Campus. [3] In 1951 and again in 1964, additions to the new St. Luke's facility were completed.
Mercy Hospital building located on 2537 S. Prairie Avenue (1910) The Sisters of Mercy came from Ireland to the United States in the 1840s; six came to Chicago in 1846, establishing first a high school and then in 1852 a hospital at Rush Street and the Chicago River. [2] It was the first chartered facility in Chicago.
[3] [4] [5] Cincinnati-based Mercy Health operates more than 250 healthcare organizations in Ohio and Kentucky. Mercy Health is the second largest health system in Ohio and the state's fourth-largest employer. [6] On September 1, 2018, Mercy Health and Bon Secours Health System USA combined to become Bon Secours Mercy Health. [7]