Mercy Southeast Expands Patient Access to Heart Care With New Provider

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Mercy Southeast Expands Patient Access to Heart Care With New Provider

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Kate Shupert

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Patients in Southeast Missouri now have expanded access to heart care with Mercy Southeast’s new advanced practice provider.

Alli Riley, family nurse practitioner, will work alongside Dr. Steven Carr and a large, experienced group of cardiologists providing advanced heart care at Mercy Clinic Heart and Vascular – Broadview, 371 S. Broadview St., Cape Girardeau. With a focus on prevention and coordination of care locally, Mercy’s clinicians at this facility provide a full range of heart care, including:

Cardiac testing and diagnosis
Treatment of heart conditions, such as coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure
Preventive heart care
Consultations

Alli Riley, family nurse practitioner at Mercy Clinic Heart and Vascular – Broadview

“I’m looking forward to following patients through their care journey from acute events to long-term care management and building relationships with them along the way,” Riley said. “This role is really going to enable me to apply my nursing experience across a broader range in both the outpatient and hospital settings and I’m excited to learn from this highly skilled cardiology team.”

Born and raised in the Cape Girardeau and Jackson area, Riley earned an associate degree in nursing from Mercy’s Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She then earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Southeast Missouri State University and later a master’s degree in nursing also from Southeast Missouri State University to become a nurse practitioner.

While in nursing school, Riley began caring for patients at Mercy Southeast in 2013 as a certified nursing assistant. She worked her way up serving in various roles before becoming a registered nurse in the cardiothoracic unit in 2016. She’s also worked in the intensive care unit and as the ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and structural heart program coordinator at the hospital, leading and optimizing protocols to ensure rapid identification, triage and treatment for a certain type of heart attack patients.

“I wanted to play a larger role in the decision-making process and the care for patients across the full spectrum of their health,” Riley said of her decision to become a nurse practitioner. “I wanted to be able to guide them from emergencies through recovery and preventative care, helping them live healthier lives and reducing their risk of future complications.”

Riley is married with two children and two dogs that all keep her busy. She enjoys spending time outdoors, particularly on the lake, boating and fishing.

To learn more about Mercy Clinic Heart and Vascular, call (573) 331-6710 or visit www.mercy.net/practice/mercy-clinic-heart-and-vascular-broadview/.

Mercy, one of the 15 largest U.S. health systems and named the top large system in the U.S. for excellent patient experience by NRC Health, serves millions annually with nationally recognized care and one of the nation’s largest and highest performing Accountable Care Organizations in quality and cost. Mercy is a highly integrated, multi-state health care system including 55 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has over 1,000 physician practice locations and outpatient facilities, more than 5,000 physicians and advanced practitioners and more than 50,000 caregivers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In fiscal year 2025 alone, Mercy provided more than half a billion dollars of free care and other community benefits, including traditional charity care and unreimbursed Medicaid.