About Us
Awards, Accreditations and Honors
Top 100 Hospital
Mercy Medical Center – Dubuque has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals for 2008 by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care. Mercy – Dubuque is one of only two hospitals in Iowa that has earned this award for 2008.
According to Thomson Reuters, the award recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence across the whole organization: clinical outcomes, patient safety, adherence to national treatment standards, patient satisfaction, operational efficiency, and financial stability. For the patient, this means the hospital is significantly more likely to provide dependable, high-quality care because doing the right thing at the right time matters to everyone in the hospital.
To learn more, visit www.100tophospitals.com
Magnet Re-Designation
Holding Magnet status since 2004, Mercy - Dubuque & Dyersville were recently re-designated as Magnet hospitals in 2009. Only 2% of the nation's hospitals have met the rigorous standards required to achieve re-designation. Mercy Medical Center was originally designated a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2004, becoming the 134th hospital in the nation to receive the honor.
Magnet recognition requires that hospitals demonstrate a strong commitment to nursing practice and the practice setting so that nurses and other clinicians are able to provide their best care, which translates into better results for patients.
Top 10 Hospital System
Trinity Health of Novi, MI, a national health system of 45 nonprofit hospitals including Mercy Medical Center – Dubuque, was named one of the 10 best performing hospital systems in the nation for the delivery of safe, high quality services. In April, Mercy – Dubuque was named one of the 100 Top Hospitals in the nation by Thomson Reuters, the same organization that is now recognizing Trinity Health’s excellence.
Elite Measures in Home Care
Mercy Home Care has been named to the 2009 HomeCare Elite™ - a compilation of the top performing home health agencies in the United States. This annual review identifies the Top 25 percent of agencies and further highlights the top 500 agencies overall out of more than 9,200 Medicare-certified home heath agencies in the nation. Winners are ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance. Mercy Home Care was also named to the HomeCare Elite™ in 2008.
Quality Respiratory Care Recognition
Mercy was recognized through the American Association for Respiratory Care’s program. This program is aimed at helping patients and families identify those facilities using qualified respiratory therapists to provide respiratory care and make informed decisions about the quality of the respiratory care services in hospitals. About 15% of hospitals in the US have received this award.
American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines
Mercy Medical Center – Dubuque has earned the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines SM Gold Level award recognizing the hospital’s quality of care for heart patients. Mercy is one of just 277 hospitals in the United States recognized by program for its performance achievement in cardiac patient care.
Energy Star
Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious ENERGY STAR, the national mark of excellence for protecting the environment through superior energy performance.
Wellmark Blue Distinction
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa has designated Mercy Medical Center - Dubuque as a Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery and a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement. Mercy also previously received the Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac Care designation in August 2006. Mercy is the only hospital in the Dubuque area to receive these designations.