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Mercy Hospital South has been a healing presence in the St. Louis region for nearly 150 years.

Featured Services

Heart Hospital

Providing comprehensive leading-edge heart and vascular services.

Cancer Center

David M. Sindelar Cancer Center raises the standard of care in St. Louis.

Rooney Breast Center

Providing patients a compassionate and supportive environment with the latest mammography technology.

Birthplace

Delivering babies into the south St. Louis community.

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 20 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, more than 4,000 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.