Articles Tagged: Mercy Medical Center

One of the first residential dogs in decades, Hope brings joy and calm to residents who have had to leave their pets behind.

After hosting a virtual-only event last year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Mercy Medical Center’s annual Especially for You Race Against Breast Cancer will return this year in person on Sunday.

Kathy Good, founder and director of the Family Caregivers Center of Mercy, has been named the director of the Chris & Suzy DeWolf Family Innovation Center for Aging and Dementia.

The Family Caregivers Center of Mercy has received a $1 million donation, officials announced this week. The Mercy Medical Center Foundation said the donation from John, Cindy and Bailey Bloomhall of Cedar Rapids and Naples, Fla., will fund two new staff positions at the center’s second location over the course of five years.

Due to an increase patient count, local hospitals are temporarily limiting elective surgeries and procedures in an effort to preserve hospital capacity for emergency cases and to continue serving the community, officials say.

All Mercy employees and volunteers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 15, officials announced Friday.

Mercy Medical Center has named Kathy Good as the first director of its Chris and Suzy DeWolf Family Innovation Center for Aging and Dementia.

A free prostate screening for men who are uninsured, underserved and/or do not have a primary care physician will be available Wednesday afternoon.

1 in 8 U.S. women will develop breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. Localizing the cancer quickly and accurately is key to ensuring patients get on the road to recovery. Mercy’s Hall-Perrine Cancer Center has a clinically proven system that uses no radiation to localize breast tumors, biopsy sites and lymph nodes.

Starting immediately, Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids is expanding hospital visiting hours and allowing more visitors per patient as COVID-19 cases continue to decrease.

Between both Cedar Rapids hospitals, only one vaccinated individual, who had underlying health conditions, has been hospitalized for COVID-19. The vast majority of admissions in recent months have been among residents who are not immunized, proving to local health care officials the vaccine is effective in preventing serious illness and death.

Mercy Medical Center broke ground Thursday on Hallmar Village, a 237-unit senior living community in northeast Cedar Rapids that officials hope will become a comprehensive center for the needs of aging Iowans.

Mercy Medical Center announced plans to construct a new facility to house the hospital’s heart services under one roof. The new building, called the Heart Center of Mercy, will be located in downtown Cedar Rapids at Ninth Street SE and Eighth Avenue SE.

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