Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, Missouri, and Perry County Health System will integrate with Mercy under a lease agreement effective Oct. 1. Mercy will operate and manage the county-owned hospital under its new name, Mercy Hospital Perry.
Mercy Hospital Perry will be the 17th critical access hospital Mercy owns or operates through lease agreements.
"This hospital is an essential part of our ability to care for Southeast Missouri, and we're looking forward to being a vital part of this community for decades to come," Mercy President and CEO Steve Mackin said in a release.
Mercy already has hosted community roundtable events to hear how Mercy can best serve Perry County as well as to learn what residents envision for the future of health care in the area.
The transition includes installing a new electronic health record system through Epic. This system offers one medical record to all Mercy health care providers. It also offers patients online appointment scheduling, access to their records, contact with
their physicians, online bill payment and more.