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2010

• $60 Million Mercy Data Center Provides Fail-Safe Protection and Power (March)
• David C. Pratt Cancer Center Offers Free Head and Neck Cancer Screening (March 23)
• St. John's Mercy Children’s Hospital Seeks Input from Former Patients (March)
• St. John’s Mercy Offers Free Colon Cancer Screening Tests (Feb. 22)
• Eight Nurses from St. John’s Mercy Honored for Excellence in Nursing (Feb. 22)
• St. John’s Mercy Heart and Vascular Hospital First in St. Louis
  Region to Offer Pre-Hospital Therapeutic Hypothermia
  for Cardiac Arrest Patients (Feb. 2)
• $2.5 Million Estate Gift to St. John’s Mercy Foundation (Jan. 29)
• St. John’s Mercy Foundation Announces New Board Chairman George Roman (Jan. 29)
• Two Sisters of Mercy Health System Networks Top National Integrated Delivery Network Rankings (Jan. 25)
• H1N1 Vaccine Offered at St. John’s Mercy Urgent Care Centers (Jan. 19)
• St. John’s Mercy Partners with Schnucks to Offer Heart-Healthy Cooking Classes (Jan. 14)

2009

• St. John’s Mercy Medical Group Practice First in Missouri
  To Achieve NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Certification (Dec. 29)
• Missouri Hospital Association Recognizes St. John’s Mercy Health Care Executives (Dec. 23)
• St. John’s Mercy Hosts Blood Drives (Dec. 23)
• H1N1 Pregnancy Vaccination Day (Oct. 19)
• Community Breast Cancer Screening at Pilgrim Congregational UCC (Oct. 19)
• Mardi Gras Masquerade Fundraiser to Benefit St. John’s Mercy Medical Center (Oct. 12)
• St. John’s Mercy Heart and Vascular Announces New Physician (Oct. 9)
• St. John’s Mercy Children’s Hospital Welcomes New Doctors (Oct. 6)
• Final Beam Placed on New St. John’s Mercy Outpatient Facility (Oct. 6)
• Modern Healthcare Names St. John’s Mercy Top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare for Second Year (Sept. 11)
• St. John's Mercy Children's Hospital Collaborating with Fort Zumwalt and Parkway to Provide Seasonal Flu Vaccinations (Sept. 1)
• St. John's Mercy Betters National Average for Heart Attack Mortality (August 26)
• St. John's Mercy Medical Center to Implement Integrated Electronic Health Record System August 30 (August 24)
• St. John's Mercy Heart and Vascular Physicians Receive National Quality Recognition for Cardiovascular and Stroke Care (August 14)
• “Time Critical Diagnosis” Goal to Save Lives of Heart Attack Patients in Missouri (June 30)
• St. John’s Mercy Breast Center First in Missouri to Receive NAPBC Accreditation (June 23)
• New Breast MRI Table Increases Patients’ Comfort at St. John’s Mercy Breast Center (June 23)
• St. John’s Mercy Hosts Blood Drives (June 4)
• Community Breast Cancer Screening at St. John the Baptist Church (June 3)
• St. John’s Mercy Neighborhood Ministry Helps the Low-income and Homeless Send Mother’s Day Cards (April 15)
• Embracing Wholeness Health Fair Offered by St. John’s Mercy (April 7)
• St. John’s Mercy Health Care Announces Leadership Changes (April 7)
• St. John’s Mercy Foundation Presents Benefit 4 the Kids Dinner Auction and Golf Tournament (March 16)
• BLOOM: A Health and Lifestyle Event for Women of All Ages (March 24)
• David C. Pratt Cancer Center Offers Free Head and Neck
  Cancer Screening (March 26)
• Petito Earns Fellow in Hospital Medicine Designation
• St. John’s Mercy Offers Free Colon Cancer Screening Tests (February 19)
• Mardi Gras Masquerade Fundraiser to Benefit St. John’s Mercy Medical Center (January 8)
• St. John’s Mercy Hyperbaric and Wound Treatment Center Director Receives Subspecialty Board Certification (January 8)