• 24-Hour Emergency Care
• Behavioral Health Services
• Home Care
• Sleep Lab
• Wound Care
• Outpatient Rehabilitation
• Mammography

Lincoln County Memorial Hospital welcomed its first patient on April 16, 1953. Long before the doors opened, plans for a hospital in Lincoln County were being made. The hospital’s first board of trustees was appointed in 1946.

Construction began in 1952 and the 50-bed hospital was scheduled to open at 7 a.m. on April 16, 1953.  However, Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCormack, of Ethlyn, came to the hospital in the early hours of the morning, and became the parents of the first baby born at Lincoln County Memorial Hospital. Brenda Kay, the McCormacks' 12th child, jumped the gun on the opening of the hospital by making her appearance at 5:09 a.m. that morning. Dr. Joe C. Creech, of Troy, was the attending physician.

The hospital came under the sponsorship of Mercy in 2015.

Achievements 

• American College of Radiology Gold Seal for "highest level of image quality and patient safety" in CT, MRI, mammography, ultrasound and nuclear medicine imaging.

Accreditations

• The Joint Commission
• American College of Radiology 
• College of American Pathologists

Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems in 2018, 2017 and 2016 by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy includes more than 40 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, 800 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 44,000 co-workers and 2,100 Mercy Clinic physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In addition, Mercy's IT division, Mercy Technology Services, supply chain organization, ROi, and Mercy Virtual commercially serve providers and patients in more than 20 states coast to coast.

• Staffed Beds: 19
• Co-workers: 354
  
• Mercy Clinic Physicians: 18
• Acute Inpatient Discharges: 598
• Surgeries (Inpatient and Outpatient): 554
• Emergency Visits: 12,558
• Outpatient Visits: 41,186
• Traditional Charity Care: $706,000
• Unreimbursed Medicaid: $816,000
• Other Community Benefit: $98,000

Ashley Rottler

636-528-3277 office
ashley.rottler@mercy.net