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- Bariatric Center
- Behavioral Health
- Breast Center
- Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
- Cardiology and Heart Care
- Convenient Care
- Ear, Nose and Throat/Allergy Services
- Endocrinology and Diabetes Center
- Family and Internal Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- General and specialty surgery
- Heart Failure Center
- Home Health and Hospice
- Imaging Services
- Infectious diseases
- Mobile Mammography
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Nutrition and Diabetes Services
- Orthopedics
- Palliative Care
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacy
- Plastic and Reconstructive Services
- Podiatry
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Senior Care
- Sports Medicine
- Therapy and Rehab Services
- Urology
- Vein Center
- Women's Health
- Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
Just the Facts
- Recognized by the American College of Cardiology in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” issue for commitment to hospital care for heart patients.
- Named the only Top General Hospital in Missouri and one of only 45 Top General Hospitals nationwide by The Leapfrog Group.
- Awarded highest possible grade seven consecutive times since 2015 by The Leapfrog Group. Scores released twice a year.
- Named 100 Top Hospital five times by Thomson Reuters
- Quality & Patient Safety
- 1896: Sisters of Mercy establish hospital in Joplin
- 1968: St. John’s Regional Medical Center opens at 2727 McClelland Blvd.
- 1996: Catholic Health Initiatives becomes St. John’s sponsoring organization
- 2009: Rejoins Sisters of Mercy
- May 22, 2011: EF5 tornado destroys hospital
- May 28, 2011: Mercy opens 60-bed temporary tent hospital to serve the needs of Joplin
- August 2011: Modular hospital opens, replacing field hospital
- 2012: Mercy opens pre-cast concrete hospital with full-scale emergency department and birthing facilities that is 30 percent stronger than former hospital
- 2015: 900,000-square-foot, $435 million Mercy Hospital Joplin opens to serve Joplin's growing needs (four times the size of the 2012 facility) and featuring unprecedented "storm hardened" safety features
- 2018: Mercy opens 8th floor of hospital for inpatient behavioral health services.
- $60 million data center provides fail-safe protection and power. When an EF5 tornado struck Mercy's Joplin facility in 2011, patient records electronically backed up at offsite data center were immediately available.
- MyMercy, a free service, allows patients to connect online with their doctors, plus see medical information, view test results, renew prescriptions and schedule appointments using a personal computer or smartphone.
- New in 2017 is Mercy Bedside, patients can use a tablet to access vital signs and lab results, learn about their care or condition, access health education, view daily schedules and get to know their care team.
- With vICU, Mercy monitors hospital beds. More than 40 board-certified, critical-care physicians and 60 critical-care nurses help monitor remote patients, reducing length of stay, mortality, ventilator-associated pneumonia and central blood line infections.
- Smart pumps reduce medication errors through programmable dosing equipment.
- Pharmacy robotics provides patient medication dispensing system aided through the use of a department robot.
- Surgical robot that assists in complex surgical procedures, including OB-GYN services.
By the Numbers (FY2024)
164,054
Outpatient Visits
191
Staffed Beds
$22.5 million
Total Community Benefit
184
Total Providers
13,647
Inpatient Discharges
6,166
Total Surgeries
37,195
Emergency Department Visits
1,369
Births
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