# Mercy Virtual

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{{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](/source/Chesterfield%2C_Missouri), a suburb of [St. Louis](/source/Greater_St._Louis), which operates solely through the use of [telemedicine](/source/Telehealth)—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](/source/Mercy_(healthcare_organization)) 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](/source/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&nbsp;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](/source/UNC_Health_Care), [Pennsylvania State medical center](/source/Penn_State_Milton_S._Hershey_Medical_Center)<ref name=":1" /> and the [Allegheny Health Network](/source/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 ==
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Category:Greater St. Louis
Category:Telemedicine
Category:Healthcare in St. Louis County, Missouri

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