Mercy Health St. Rita's donated $2,000 to the Lima chapter of My Brother's Keeper through their Community Health program. The funding will help support the services they provide to youth such as mentorships and field trips. The group helps young students develop important life skills and prepares them to make good choices throughout their lives.
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Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center is pleased to announce the 2023 Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Scholarship Program is now accepting applications. The program for high school seniors graduating in the spring of 2023, allocates twelve $1,500 scholarships to students from our community and region who are interested in pursuing careers as medical professionals.
LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Mercy Health-St. Rita's is working to support good health in an area of Lima that has been identified for improvement by the…
Press Release from Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services: LIMA, Ohio – Hospital staff and community members embraced the critical c…
Do you want to run in a 5k race this year? Or look to drop the 10, 20, or even 30 pounds your doctor suggest you lose? Or even get to the point where you can maybe get off some blood pressure medicine?
Mercy Health St. Rita's held an open house to celebrate the completion of renovation work of their west side urgent care, located at 2195 Allentown Road. The location is currently seeing patients and is open to help anyone with urgent needs that may not require a trip to the emergency room. The facility is equipped to take care of a variety of ailments to help the people of Lima.
It was the annual auxiliary craft show. Hundreds of volunteers have been working year-round to make the crafts filling the tables. There were also homemade candy and baked goods along with raffle baskets. The proceeds from the sale go towards the million-dollar pledge the auxiliary made to the graduate medical education center. Organizers say it was wonderful to see everyone out supporting them as it was the first street fair since the pandemic.
Some of the future faces of medicine were in Lima Tuesday afternoon preparing for their next steps in their medical careers. Mercy Health and St. Rita's Medical Center held their Residency Job Fair Tuesday at the Graduate Medical Education Center.
Lifeline of Ohio’s Champions for Hope Gala, held in October, recognized individuals and organizations for their dedication to their role in saving lives through organ, eye and tissue donation. The award winners were determined by looking at five key tenets that motivate the mission of organ donation: advocacy, collaboration, innovation, diversity, equity and inclusion, and compassion. Individuals were nominated by peers and colleagues.
This month, the hospital installed a safe haven baby box on their campus. When a mother has no option but to surrender her infant, she can leave it in the box and a silent alarm will be triggered. The box is temperature controlled, and Mercy Health campus police will retrieve the baby in less than a minute. Sarah Bassitt completed a study showing that the Lima population has risk factors that might lead a woman to circumstances where she feels she has to give her baby up, such as the number of residents that are living below the poverty line or are undereducated.