Mercy Medical Center is the leading provider of comprehensive healthcare services and programs for the more than 107,000 residents of Douglas County, Oregon. Our history of service in the region dates back more than 100 years to when the Sisters of Mercy raised $12,000 from generous local donors to build Roseburg’s first hospital. The 25-bed Mercy Hospital opened Feb. 22, 1909, on the bank of the South Umpqua River at the intersection of Harvard Avenue and Madrone Street. Several major fires, the Roseburg Blast of 1959 and growing patient activity resulted in the old Mercy Hospital being rebuilt and expanded three times until, after several expansions at the original site, a beautiful new hospital was opened at our current location on Stewart Parkway in 1977.
Today’s Mercy is a sophisticated, 174-bed medical center offering patients throughout the region local access to highly trained medical professionals, advanced technologies and a wide range of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services. More than 1,000 talented and dedicated employees and 100 compassionate and giving volunteers work throughout CHI Mercy Health. It is their commitment that has helped Mercy become one of the country's most highly rated hospitals for quality.
Mercy Medical Center is a wholly owned subsidiary of Catholic Health Initiatives (“CHI”). Through the investment of CHI, patients in Douglas County and the surrounding region have access to a wide variety of high quality services not typically found in a rural community of our size. CHI combined with Dignity Health to form CommonSpirit as a single ministry in early 2019.
Here is just a small sampling of what you will find at Mercy Medical Center:
- Care that has been recognized by Joint Commission accreditation as meeting the strict quality standards of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the State of Oregon.
- A medical center completely committed to patient safety, as is evident in consistently high hospital safety ratings.
- State-of-the-art diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative care for patients with heart conditions at Shaw Heart and Vascular Center, the first program west of Texas to earn Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence from the American College of Cardiology.
- Comprehensive outpatient image services, including access to our designated “Breast Imaging Center of Excellence.”
CHI is a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed in 1996 through the consolidation of four Catholic health systems and expresses its mission each day by creating and nurturing healthy communities in the hundreds of sites across the nation where it provides care.
Our mission as CommonSpirit Health is we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Our vision is a healthier future for all - inspired by faith, driven by innovation, and powered by our humanity.
Our values are compassion, inclusion, integrity, excellence and collaboration.
CommonSpirit Health’s commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 137 hospitals and more than 1,000 care centers serving 21 states; and through more than $4 billion annually in charity care, community benefits, and government program services.
Last fiscal year, Mercy had:
- 41,052 Emergency Room visits
- 6,584 hospital admissions (including 807 newborns) and
- 5,995 surgeries
Expansion Plan
After two years of strategic planning in partnership with community leaders, Mercy is moving forward with a significant expansion of its existing facilities. The initial planning phase of the project started July 1, 2021.
