Join Our Online Communities!

 Become a fan of Mercy on Facebook

Facebook is a website where users can join networks to connect and interact with friends, coworkers, neighbors, schools, businesses or anyone accepted as part of your friend network. The idea is to have a means to have a personal profile about themselves in addition to pictures. Facebook tells you when your friends are updating their profiles, adding to their blogs or have news to share.

As a friend to Mercy on facebook, followers will be able to follow events, breaking news and important updates and information. As a friend of Mercy on facebook, you are also an important part of contributing to the patient's voice. Mercy is always interested in how we can provide the best care to all of our patients and their families, it's part of our healing in the broadest sense approach.

 Follow us on Twitter

Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, a cross between blogging and instant messaging. Twitter is a messaging service that can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. The text-based posts are limited to 140 characters and are delivered to only those that have subscribed to receive the posts. It is a simple way to communicate and stay connected to friends, co-workers, and followers with quick updates and important information.

Mercy's approach to twitter is to connect with followers by offering information - fast. Mercy can instantly send updates on breaking health news, urgent or important information, last minute changes/alerts, in addition to updates on important events, or the latest on event happenings or changes. Twitter also allows us to open two-way communication. At Mercy we want to know what you want and what is important to you, your health, and your family.

 View our videos on YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website, where you can view and share video clips.
YouTube allows users to share videos, rate videos and create playlists and channels.

Mercy has used YouTube to share breaking news with patients and their families.
Our approach is to share and educate our patients with important information in the health care industry. In addition it also allows us the opportunity to share patient experiences, personal journeys and inspirational stories.

 Read and get involved in our Blogs

Web blogs are shared on-line journalism. New entries are entered and written in chronological order for people to read and follow as a sort of journal or diary that is posted on the internet on a regular basis.

Mercy's approach to blogging is to provide a strong connection to our patients by offering a means to interact and provide important information about what is happening at Mercy. It's also a great means to regularly gather information relevant to the health care industry, read about stories and educate you on issues, topics or highlights within the health care industry.

 Get the latest news with our RSS feed

RSS is a format for delivering regularly updates on changing information to web content. It offers quick information to help you stay informed by retrieving the latest updates from the sites you are interested in. This information helps save time and ensures your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter. RSS feeds can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based and will send the subscriber updated information to mobile devices or their computer immediately.
 
The benefits of subscribing to Mercy's RSS Feeds is to get important information and updates immediately, saving you precious time. The RSS Feeds will send news headlines and important content summaries. The feeds contain just enough information without overwhelming the reader. If additional information is wanted users can access the specific link, directing them to the website for additional details. It's our way of establishing trust, and ongoing communication with patients.