Mercy General Hospital

Description

Catholic Healthcare West and Mercy Hospital of Folsom are committed to furthering the healing ministry of Jesus and to providing highquality affordable healthcare to the communities we serve

Our Mission
Catholic Healthcare West and our Sponsoring Congregations are committed to furthering the healing ministry of Jesus We dedicate our resources to

Delivering compassionate highquality affordable health services
Serving and advocating for our sisters and brothers who are poor and disenfranchised
Partnering with others in the community to improve the quality of life
Our Vision
A growing and diversified health care ministry distinguished by excellent quality and committed to expanding access to those in need

Our Values
Catholic Healthcare West is committed to providing highquality affordable healthcare to the communities we serve Above all else we value

Collaboration Working together with people who support common values and vision to achieve shared goals
Dignity Respecting the inherent value and worth of each person
Excellence Exceeding expectations through teamwork and innovation
Justice Advocating for social change and acting in ways that promote respect for all persons and demonstrate compassion for our sisters and brothers who are powerless
Stewardship Cultivating the resources entrusted to us to promote healing and wholeness
CHW is strengthened in service by the membership of Catholic hospitals founded by congregations of religious women and hospitals that are not Catholic founded by local communities or dedicated physicians The same work of healing is central to all we do

For guidance and moral foundation CHWs Catholic hospitals use The Ethical and Religious Directives published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

For guidance and moral foundation CHWs secular hospitals use the CHW Statement of Common Values

History

Mercy General Hospitals history of healing in Sacramento dates back to the opening of the Sisters of Mercys first hospital Mater Misericordiae at 22nd and R Streets in the late 1890s In 1925 the Sisters broke ground at 40th and J Streets for a hospital that would serve the people of Sacramento for years to come

More than 80 years later the Sisters tradition of healing with compassion lives on at Mercy General Hospital now with 343 licensed beds and a physician staff of more than 700 Today Mercy General is proud to be regarded as one of the areas most comprehensive and accomplished medical centers

Mercy General Hospital has grown in services and sophistication over the past 80 years but our mission has remained unchanged Following are some of the key dates and events in our history

1831
Catherine McAuley founds order of the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin Ireland It is her vision that the healthy and educated should give their lives to the sick and uneducated

1854
Eight Sisters of Mercy from Dublin arrive in San Francisco

1857
Sisters Mary Baptist Russell and Mary DeSales Reddan travel by river steamboat from San Francisco to the gold rush boomtown of Sacramento There they establish the first local Catholic school in the basement of St Roses church The Sisters begin making regular visits to the sick thereby beginning the Sisters mission of healthcare in Sacramento

1895
The Sisters of Mercy acquire the Ridge Home a 15bed sanitarium at 22nd and R streets for 12000 The Sisters immediately make plans to build a modern hospital on the property

1896
Ground is broken on land adjacent to the Ridge Home for a new 30bed hospital The new facility named Mater Misericordiae Latin for quotMother of Mercyquot is the Sisters first hospital in Sacramento

1897
Mater Misericordiae also called quotthe Sisters hospitalquot opens to the public The Sisters begin a training school for nurses

1918
Sacramento suffers a devastating influenza epidemic To keep up with the growing need Mater Misericordiae expands to 90 beds and now occupies all the useable land on the block

1919
The Sisters purchase a sevenacre dairy site at 40th amp J streets to build a new hospital

1925
The new hospital opens on what is now the site of Mercy General Hospital The new hospital has a capacity for 155 beds and 35 bassinets It also houses the nursing school

1934
The name of the hospital is formally changed from Mater Misericordiae to Mercy Hospital later known as Mercy General Hospital

1950
Mercy College of Nursing closes after training more than 600 nurses including nurses who served in both World Wars

1951
The 40bed Mercy Childrens Hospital opens adjacent to Mercy Hospital It is the only institution in the Sacramento Valley dedicated exclusively to pediatrics

1954
Mercy Hospital adds a new East Wing with 115 beds

1981
The hospital adds the North Wing which accommodates the cardiac and general surgery operating rooms ICUs and other services

1983
Mercy Childrens Hospital is closed pediatric services are absorbed into Mercy General Hospital

1987
The Boards of Directors of the three Sacramento Mercy hospitals formally consolidated into one governing board Mercy Healthcare Sacramento the first multihospital division of the newly formed Catholic Healthcare West CHW

1997
Mercy General Hospital receives its first 100 Top Hospital designation by Solucient Mercy General went on to receive a total of three such designations 100 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals for Cardiac Intervention 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success and 100 Top Hospitals Regional Benchmarks for Success These awards are given to topperforming hospitals based on quality of care efficiency of operation and sustainability of overall performance

19982004
Mercy General Hospital is recognized by HealthGrades Inc a national healthcare rating organization as one of the nations premier cardiac programs for clinical outcomes In each of these six years Mercy General Hospital is rated as the top cardiac provider in the Greater Sacramento region In its 2004 Report Card HealthGrades also names Mercy General as the number one provider of coronary artery bypass surgery in the state of California

2001
Catholic Healthcare West announces a reorganization plan designed to focus resources at the hospitals and the communities they serve and keep CHW competitive in the marketplace As part of the reorganization the former regional structure along with the Mercy Healthcare Sacramento name are dissolved

2002
Mercy General Hospital announces a generous 15 million gift from former heart patient Alex G Spanos to build a stateoftheart heart center at Mercy General The 70 million facility will allow the hospital to adequately accommodate the high volume of heart patients treated each year

2003
CHW reports a positive net income for its fiscal year the first time in six years to culminate the successful threeyear reorganization effort Mercy General plays a significant role in that financial improvement