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Healthcare - Mercy Regional Health Center

Access to convenient, affordable, and high quality healthcare is a vital component to the prosperity of any top-tier community. Manhattan is sprinkled with physicians offering a wide range of specialties and subspecialties, ensuring residents are afforded services to meet any medical need. Specialties of all kinds, from pediatrics, internal medicine, and rehabilitation clinics to dentistry, chiropractic, and optometry, can be found here, in addition to a highly rated surgical center and, notably, Mercy Regional Health Center.

When it comes to healthcare, Manhattan residents get the best of both worlds. As a 150-bed facility, Mercy Regional Health Center is large enough to offer most of the services of a metropolitan hospital, but small enough to ensure personalized, compassionate care.

Mercy Regional recently completed a massive expansion project, which updated its facilities and created a homelike environment that promotes patient healing and staff collaboration. With superior new facilities and technologies, a highly trained staff with a holistic approach to healthcare, exceptional physicians, dedicated volunteers, and a supportive community, Mercy Regional is fast becoming one of the top hospitals in the Midwest. Mercy Regional was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders of 2007.

Composed of a main campus on College Avenue and several satellite facilities within Manhattan, Mercy Regional encompasses a full-scale healthcare system integrating the skill of more than 140 physicians and close to 1,000 team members. From surgery to fitness, physical therapy to interventional cardiology, Mercy Regional is the leading provider of quality health and wellness services in the region.

Among some of Mercy Regional’s notable specialty services are:

Critical Care
Critical Care Services provides treatment for patients with serious, and often life-threatening conditions. Taking a holistic approach, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team works closely with intensivists (or intensive care specialists), cardiologists, and a nephrologist (or kidney specialist). Mercy Regional also offers ICU patients an extra layer of care with eCare-ICU—a 24-hour, remote care system in Wichita. This advanced technology provides around-the-clock intensivist care, which decreases complications, recovery time, and length of time spent in ICU.

The Heart Institute
The Heart Institute at Mercy Regional was established to build upon Manhattan’s existing preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services in cardiology. The expertise of cardiologists and nursing staff allows area residents to receive quality interventional cardiac care close to home. Services include routine cardiac testing and monitoring, as well as interventional procedures such as angioplasty and stent placements within Mercy Regional’s state-of-the-art catheterization laboratory.

Imaging Services
Mercy Imaging Services offers a full range of diagnostic services, including high-field and open MRI; nuclear medicine; fluoroscopy; digital mammography; diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization; general, vascular, and cardiac ultrasound; CT; and PET/CT. Mercy Regional is one of a select group of U.S. hospitals equipped with industry-leading 64-slice CT technology. Mercy Regional’s Women’s Imaging Center was also recently designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology, making it one of the few centers in the state with that designation.

The Joint Care Center
The orthopedics team provides pre-procedure education; treatment from an award-winning, highly experienced team of orthopedic professionals; and excellent rehabilitation care, all in one place. The department also includes the Joint Care Center, a full-service, specialized unit dedicated to joint replacement surgery—with a focus on hip and knee replacement surgery. Mercy Regional is the only facility in the area with a unit dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of joint replacement patients, and was rated among the top 10 percent in the country for joint replacement surgery in 2008.