Mercy Medical Center (Springfield, Massachusetts)
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| Geography | |
| Location | Springfield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Coordinates | 42°06′56″N 72°35′37″W / 42.115532°N 72.593679°WCoordinates: 42°06′56″N 72°35′37″W / 42.115532°N 72.593679°W |
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| Care system | Private |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Hospital type | Community |
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| Beds | 301 |
| History | |
| Founded | November 7, 1873 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
Mercy Medical Center (also known as Mercy Medical, or Mercy Hospital,) is located in Springfield, Massachusetts. Run by the Sisters of Providence Health System, Mercy Hospital is a faith-based, non-profit organization serving patients regardless of background or beliefs. Mercy Medical Center is known for its tradition of holistic health care.
As of 2011, Mercy Medical Center is ranked among the Top 100 Community Value Hospitals by Cleverley & Associates.
Like other hospitals in the Sisters of Providence Health System, (a member of Catholic Health East), Mercy is a community of persons committed to serving citizens of the Knowledge Corridor metropolitan area. Mercy Medical Center advocate public policies and initiatives in line with the Catholic faith.
Today’s Sisters of Providence originated from another community of religious women, the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
In September 1873, two Sisters from the Canadian community approached Reverend Patrick J. Harkins, pastor of Holyoke, Massachusetts' St. Jerome’s Church, asking permission to solicit funds from his parishioners. Reverend Harkins granted the request, he in turn asked the Sisters to petition their superiors to send others from their community to establish a Holyoke mission. He wanted the new mission to address the needs of the rapidly growing poor Irish and Scottish immigrant mill workers in the Holyoke community.
On November 7, 1873, four Sisters arrived to establish the Holyoke mission. Within a week they accepted the first orphan to their House of Providence and it was not long before city officials were sending the needy and infirm to them for care and shelter. In 1874, the Sisters of Providence established the first Catholic hospital in western Massachusetts. Today's Springfield-based Mercy Medical Center developed from this small start as the "House of Providence."
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