Mercy Quick Facts

Mercy Heritage

• Sisters of Mercy Founder Catherine McAuley opened the first House of Mercy in 1827 in Dublin, Ireland.
• By the late 1800s, the Sisters of Mercy had founded more schools than any other religious order in the English-speaking world.
• Central Bank of Ireland honored Founder Catherine McAuley for her impact on Irish culture by putting her picture on a £5 note.
• Sisters of Mercy are currently seeking sainthood through the Roman Catholic Church for Founder Catherine McAuley.

Just the Facts:

Technology:

• Among only six percent of health care organizations nationwide to have a comprehensive, integrated electric health record system that provides real-time, paperless access to patient information.
• MyMercy, a new web-based service, allows patients to connect online with their doctors, plus see medical medical information, view test results, renew prescriptions an schedule appointments using a personal computer or smart phone.
• Health Information and Management Systems Society, a global leader in health care technology, recently designated Mercy a stage six of a seven-stage process, joining the ranks of health care leaders such as Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic.
• $60 million data center provides fail-safe protection and power across four states in the event of natural disasters or power or water interruptions.
• With Mercy SafeWatch, critical-care patients across four states are monitored with video cameras and electronic systems by specialized ICU physicians and nurses in a central command center - providing on-site teams an extra set of specialty trained eyes.
• Mercy invested $35 million as early as 2003 in barcode technology to reduce potential medication errors. Only a quarter of hospitals in the nation use this technology. By doing so, Mercy saved $109 million in health care costs and avoided more than 150,000 potential medication errors

Achievements:

• Named top health care supply chain operation in the world, just second overall to global giant Johnson & Johnson.
• Named National Supply Chain Excellence in Healthcare award winner for radically redefining medical "toolkits" from the ground up.

Green:

• Saved more than $1 million and diverted more than 40,000 pounds of waste from local landfills in 12-month period with a new green initiative that involves reprocessing medical devices.