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Celebrating over 40 years of Caring for a Lifetime
Significant Dates in Mercy’s History
September 1960
Hospital Auxiliary organized
November 1960
Seven Hospital Board members elected
August 1, 1961
Community votes to build new hospital
May 1962
Groundbreaking ceremony for new hospital
June 1, 1963
20-bed hospital opens
May 10, 1964
25-bed nursing home addition opens
1968
Addition increases hospital beds to 40; nursing home adds 28 beds
Ambulance service begins with donated ambulance from Wes Hamlin
1973
Intensive Cornonary Care Unit opens
1977
Addition increases nursing home beds to 94; Expansion
creates larger emergency room, new medical records department, doctors’ lounge,
nurses’ lounge, new lab, and corridor connection to Gateway Family
Health Clinic.
1979
Hospital reduces certified beds
1980
Designated Local Trauma Emergency Hospital by Arrowhead Regional Development
Commission
January 1983
Facility name changed to Mercy Hospital and Health Care Center
May 1984
New corporation with Gateway Clinic formed. Family Health System, Inc.
Corporation offers pharmacy, home care services and wellness program.
May 1, 1986
Mercy Hospital and Health Care Center is first hospital in Minnesota
to become smoke-free facility
1991
Mercy becomes sole owner of Family Health System, Inc.
1994
Outpatient addition and hospital remodeling completed
July 1996
Mercy chosen as first site for the Minnesota Rural Health School, a program
of the University of Minnesota
1997
Kenwood Place assisted living facility opens
Special Care Unit opens
1998
Walters House, a residence for on-call and Rural Health School students,
opens
1999
The Mercy Foundation is formed, board elected
2001
New surgical wing opens
2003
New Education Center opens, featuring two classrooms and working models
of an intensive care patient room and an emergency treatment room
2004
Mercy receives designation as a Critical Access Hospital
2004
Gateway Family Health Clinic opens new facility west of Mercy on Highway
61
Mercy opens remodeled Birthing Center in November
