Our Outcomes

The Inpatient Acute Rehabilitation Program at Mercy General Hospital delivers compassionate, high-quality, cost-effective care that helps patients get back to the life they love. Our patients benefit from the coordinated efforts of our interdisciplinary team—offering 24/7 nursing and physician coverage. The true testament of our work is the number of lives we’ve positively impacted—helping nearly 13,000 patients develop the skills needed to regain independence since opening our doors in 1986.

The data below is for the time period July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019.

Who We Serve
		Average Range: 21-95 Average Age: 61 Total patients admitted: 554

Gender
Male: 314, Female: 240
57%43%

Effectiveness
		Length of stay (LOS) efficiency reflects the functional improvement a program participant makes during their stay in an acute rehabilitation program. Patients discharged from Mercy General Hospital’s Acute Rehabilitation Program make significantly more functional progress than patients at other area programs. Our Program: 3.01 Regional Benchmark: 2.68

Return to Community
		Our patients: 88.5% Regional benchmark: 81.2%

Satisfaction
92.4%		92.4% of Mercy General’s Acute Rehabilitation Program participants were “very satisfied” with the overall program services and they stated they would recommend it to their friends and family.