{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Mercy Virtual | logo = | image = Mercy_Virtual_Headquarters.jpg | pushpin_map = | network = Mercy Health System | type = Telemedicine | website = http://www.mercyvirtual.net/ | coordinates = {{coord|38.6504|-90.5589|type:landmark_region:US-MO|display=inline,title}} | address = 15740 S Outer Forty Rd, Chesterfield | state = Missouri | country = US | opened = October 2015 }} '''Mercy Virtual''' is a virtual care center (also called a "virtual hospital") in Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, which operates solely through the use of telemedicine—the first facility of its kind in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mercyvirtual.net/|title=Home|last=Atomicdust|website=Mercy Virtual|language=en|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web | url = https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/11/08/virtual-hospital-mercy-st-louis-000573/| title = A hospital without patients | last=Allen | first = Arthur | publisher = Politico | date = November 8, 2017 | access-date=October 6, 2019}}</ref>
Mercy Virtual provides remote services to patients in Mercy system hospitals and medical offices, and to other partner hospitals, by providing diagnosis, prognosis and treatment suggestions and remotely monitors individual patient health.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2018/01/09/virtual-mercy|title=This 'virtual hospital' has no beds—and could be the wave of the future|website=www.advisory.com|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref> Mercy Virtual monitors patients with special devices that report data which allows ongoing management of health conditions remotely, both at hospitals or outside a medical institution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/mercy-virtual-uses-mhealth-wearables-to-create-a-new-model-of-care|title=Mercy Virtual Uses mHealth Wearables to Create a New Model of Care|date=November 9, 2018|website=mHealthIntelligence|language=en-US|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref> Mercy Virtual operated without lack of Medicare or Medicaid funding for telemedicine services,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/03/22/the-health-202-hospitals-lean-into-virtual-health-care-even-as-medicare-won-t-cover-it/5c93a1121b326b0f7f38f220/|title=Analysis {{!}} The Health 202: Hospitals lean into virtual health care even as Medicare won't cover it|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> but this was temporarily waived at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Missouri's Virtual Care Center Raises Questions About Telehealth|url=https://www.emsworld.com/news/1225788/missouris-virtual-care-center-raises-questions-about-telehealth|access-date=2021-05-22|website=EMS World|language=en}}</ref> The facility contains 300,000 square feet of workspace on a 41-acre site<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theljc.com/portfolio/mercy-virtual-care-center/|title=MERCY VIRTUAL CARE CENTER|website=The LJC|language=en-US|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://claycorp.com/project/mercy-virtual-care-center/|title=Mercy Virtual Care Center|last=Jodie|website=Claycorp|language=en-US|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref> and cost $54 million to develop.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2017/09/25/mercy-healths-300-million-investment-in-digital-healthcare-is-paying-off/|title=Mercy's $300 million investment in digital healthcare is paying off|date=September 2, 2017|website=Digital Commerce 360|language=en-US|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref> The facility provides office environments, videoconferencing rooms and meeting rooms to provide a work environment for nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers staffed at the facility. Mercy Virtual has partnerships to provide telemedicine services to patients of the UNC Health system, Pennsylvania State medical center<ref name=":1" /> and the Allegheny Health Network.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hitconsultant.net/2019/06/24/ahn-mercy-virtual-icu-program-critical-care/|title=AHN to Implement Mercy Virtual's ICU Program to Enhance Critical Care -|date=June 2, 2019|language=en-US|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/mercy-virtual-extends-telemedicine-network-with-ahn-partnership|title=Mercy Virtual Extends Telemedicine Network With AHN Partnership|date=June 2, 2019|website=mHealthIntelligence|language=en-US|access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref>
== References == <references />
Category:Greater St. Louis Category:Telemedicine Category:Healthcare in St. Louis County, Missouri
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