WHEREAS, For the hospital's 50th anniversary, Bishop George
L. Leech of Harrisburg celebrated an outdoor mass on July 2,
1968, in front of the hospital; and
WHEREAS, In its first 50 years, between 1918 and 1968, the
hospital had 326,959 admissions, 65,732 births, 170,232
operations, 623,379 emergency room visits, 1,177,068 clinic
visits, 1,884 nurse graduates and 506 interns and residents; and
WHEREAS, Demographic changes during the 1960s and early 1970s
caused the use of both maternity and pediatric services to
decline markedly; and
WHEREAS, In 1988, Misericordia Hospital began a period of
renewal and growth establishing Mercy Health Corporation as the
parent organization to provide administrative guidance for
Misericordia Hospital and its sister facility, Fitzgerald Mercy
Hospital, as well as to further develop other health care
initiatives; and
WHEREAS, Back from the brink of possible closure, in 1991 the
hospital launched a five-year, $52 million renovation to include
a 440-car parking garage, renovated surgical suites and recovery
rooms, upgraded nursing units and patient rooms, a computerized
alarm system and new imaging technology; and
WHEREAS, To help meet children's health care needs in West
Philadelphia, Misericordia Hospital dedicated the Huey Family
Health Center in November 1992, providing physicians, pediatric
nurse practitioners and support staff offering medical and
health-related services, including immunizations, checkups and
early intervention to more than 900 children; and
WHEREAS, By 1993, the hospital was responding to specific
community needs by focusing its clinical services on cardiology,
oncology and maternal child health, having been chosen to
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