Featured Services
Additional Services
- Bariatric Surgery
- Endoscopy Center
- de Greeff Hospice House
- Home Health
- Hyland Behavioral Health Center
- Hyperbaric and Wound Care
- Level 1 STEMI Center
- Level 1 Stroke Center
- Level 2 Trauma Center
- Mercy Kids ER
- Surgery Center (inpatient and outpatient)
- Medical Doctors Buildings
- Ortho-Spine Center
- Sleep Center
Just the Facts
- The Joint Commission
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
- Commission on Cancer
- The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Associations’s Heart-Checkmark for Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Center
- The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification in Heart Failure
- 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.
- Society for Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 3-star (highest) rating for isolated coronary bypass grafting (CABG)
- AHA/ASA Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus
- AHA/ASA Get with the Guidelines Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement with Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll
- Level 2 Trauma Center
- Level 1 Stroke Center
- Level 1 STEMI Center
- CARF-Accredited Acute Rehab Unit
- Accredited Cancer Care Center
- 1873: Franciscan Sisters of Germany open their first hospital in St. Louis, St. Boniface Hospital is south St. Louis
- 1900: Sisters open St. Anthony’s Hospital at Grand Boulevard and Chippewa Street in south St. Louis
- 1946: St. Anthony’s Hospital becomes the Midwest’s primary treatment center for polio
- 1967: Sisters transfer ownership and control of the hospital to a lay board
- 1975: New hospital, called St. Anthony’s Medical Center, opens at current location in south St. Louis County
- 1977: Hyland Behavioral Health opens
- 1999: de Greeff Hospice House opens
- 2008: Heart & Vascular Center opens
- 2017: St. Anthony’s affiliates with Mercy
- 2018: St. Anthony’s renamed Mercy Hospital South
- da Vinci Surgical System
- 3D tomosynthesis mammography
- 3D heart mapping system
By The Numbers (FY2022)
272,939 visits
Outpatient
$8.2 million
Traditional Charity Care
$3.1 million
Other Community Benefit
$10.8 million
Unreimbursed Medicaid
767 Beds
Inpatient Care
57 Locations
Clinic and Outpatient
2,898 Co-workers
Hospital Based
192 Physicians
Mercy Clinic
63,252 Visits
Emergency Room
904 Births
Maternity Services
About Mercy
Mercy, one of the 25 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 quality care and one of the nation’s largest Accountable Care Organizations. Mercy is a highly integrated, multi-state health care system including more than 40 acute care, managed and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has 900 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 4,000 Mercy Clinic physicians and advanced practitioners, and more than 40,000 co-workers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
Media Contact
Joe Poelker
St. Louis - South, Festus
Phone: 314-525-4005
Cell: 314-724-6095
Twitter: @MercySouthSTL
