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Awards, Accreditations and Honors
- Mercy was ranked fourth in the nation for overall medical care, first in the nation for cardiac care and second in the nation for respiratory care by The Delta Group’s CareChex® Medical Quality Rating System
- Mercy was named one of the safest hospitals in country by forbes.com, the online version of Forbes Magazine, placing it among the top five percent of hospitals in the nation
- For the 10th year in a row, the National Research Corporation recognized Mercy as one of the nation’s top hospitals for quality and image with its 2008/09 Consumer Choice Award for the Des Moines metro area
- Mercy Clinics celebrated its 25-year anniversary of providing quality care to central Iowans
- Mercy received the highest distinction for cardiac surgery from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons by earning its prestigious three-star rating
- Mercy’s bariatric surgery program was designated a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- Mercy Clinics was honored with the American Medical Group Association’s 2008 Acclaim Award, a prestigious quality award honoring organizations for providing safer, more reliable, more responsive and more accessible health care
- Mercy received the 2008 American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Silver Performance Achievement Award for its consistent efforts to improve the quality of care it delivers to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients
- Mercy joined with Des Moines University to create the Iowa Center for Translational and Clinical Research (ICTCR), a partnership for research and medicine that is the first of its kind in central Iowa
- Mercy Clinics received a $10,000 grant from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation to expand its innovative shared medical visits program
- Twenty-five Mercy physicians were named to the 2008 list of “Top Docs” in Greater Des Moines in a poll conducted by dsm magazine
- Mercy became the only central Iowa hospital to earn Cycle II Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by the Society of Chest Pain Centers for meeting or exceeding criteria for heart-related diagnosis, treatment and education
- Mercy received three-year program certification from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Mercy’s human subject protection education program was ranked fourth in the nation by the National Association of Institutional Managers
- Mercy was honored with two Gold Awards and a Platinum Award for outstanding achievement in publications by the Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals through its 2008 MarCom Awards
- Mercy earned an “A+” rating from the Better Business Bureau of Greater Iowa for meeting or exceeding 16 standards of business excellence
- Mercy received its third consecutive three-year accreditation from CARF International for the Mercy Center for Rehabilitative Medicine
- Mercy was named a Bariatric Center of Excellence by OptumHealthSM for clinical outcomes, quality and compliance with nationally recognized guidelines
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 FY08 Mercy Annual Report
Click here to download the 2007-2008 Mercy Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines
Annual Report to the Community (PDF)*
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