Mercy Hospital Southeast
1701 Lacey St.
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Phone: (573) 334-4822
Open daily 24 hours
Mercy Hospital Southeast Featured Services
Additional Hospital Services
- Breast Center
- Convenient care
- Digestive health care
- Fitness Centers
- Heart and vein care
- Hyperbaric and wound care
- Imaging services, such as CT scans, mammograms, x-rays and ultrasounds
- Inpatient services, such as critical care, ICU and NICU
- Labs and testing
- Lung and heart rehabilitation
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
- Pharmacy
- Primary Care
- Speech, occupational and physical therapies
- Women's health care
Just the Facts
- Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS)
- First Abbott reference lab in nation with automation program
- Epic electronic health record – stores your health history and interactions in one place for easy access by your doctors
- Convenient options for care – includes virtual visits and phone consultations
- Leading-edge technology – access the latest medical trials, technology and collaborations with leading national health systems
- MyMercy app
- Virtual ICU supplemental care
- Mercy Hospital Southeast has been a healing hand for people in southeast Missouri communities since 1928.
- 1928 – Dedication of the hospital. Some came on foot, bundled up against the bitter winter cold. More came by automobile and streetcar. Horse-drawn wagons brought others. In all, 5000 people crowded shoulder to shoulder on “hospital hill” to be part of the dedication ceremonies for Southeast Missouri Hospital. The school of nursing also began.
- 1957 – A new addition was added, doubling the bed capacity of the hospital to around 153 beds and included five operating rooms; orthopedic and urological operating rooms; a new obstetrics department and additional beds for medical-surgical patients and pediatrics.
- 1979 – The hospital established downstate Missouri’s first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
- 1981 – Southeast Missouri Hospital’s Regional Cancer Center was completed located next to the hospital on Lacey.
- 1984 – First open-heart surgery performed.
- 1986 – An outpatient laboratory and pre-admitting facility opened at Doctors’ Park as Southeast’s first off-campus venture.
- 1993 – Southeast Missouri Hospital School of Nursing was approved through the State Board of Nursing to expand program as an LPN-to-RN pathway and began with the fall 1994 class.
- 1996 – Southeast Joint Replacement Center opened offering specialize care for patients to return to their normal lifestyles after hip, knee or shoulder replacement surgeries.
- 2001 – Southeast Regional Heart Center and Cape Girardeau’s Cardiac and Vascular Surgeons introduced endovascular triple-A repair; a new, minimally invasive treatment option for individuals with abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- 2001 – Became first hospital in the region to offer Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
- 2004 – Healthpoint Plaza, a medically integrated fitness and rehabilitation facility opened.
- 2011 – Southeast Cancer Center opens as part of the West Campus which was the largest construction project in the hospital’s history at the time.
- 2024 – SoutheastHEALTH joins Mercy and becomes Mercy Hospital Southeast.
- Mercy Southeast named to Newsweek’s 2024 list of Best Maternity Care Hospitals
- Gold Seal of Approval™ by The Joint Commission
- Ranked in Top 5 percent of nation's hospitals for patient satisfaction by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- American College of Cardiology (ACC) in the “Best Hospitals” issue of U.S. News and World Report
- 2025 Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus
- Stroke Elite Honor Roll
- Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- Building Blocks of Missouri Southeast has registered nurses who make free home visits to qualified women during and after pregnancy, empowering them to live healthy.
- Prescription Produce program – Mercy works with the Southeast Missouri Food Bank to make referrals for patients to receive fruits and vegetables on a regular basis each month to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
By The Numbers (FY2025)
128,995
Outpatient Visits
131
Staffed Beds
176
Total Providers
7,309
Inpatient Discharges
1,255
Total Surgeries
25,462
ED Visits
627
Births
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