Mercyhealth is a multi-regional health system with more than 700 primary and specialty care doctors, seven hospitals, and 85 primary and specialty care locations throughout northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Mercyhealth’s doctors, nurses and staff bring knowledge and innovation to ensure that patients receive world-class health care. From the hospital to home, their integrated health system offers high-quality care at every step of the health journey.
Mercyhealth provides convenient, expert care at over a dozen Rockford-area locations. Javon Bea Hospital and Physician Clinic–Riverside on I-90 and Riverside Boulevard serves as the regional hub for highly specialized care. It includes a Level I emergency/trauma center, the state-designated Regional Perinatal Center, a 52-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and a wide array of pediatric and adult specialty providers. Their highly specialized, hybrid surgical suites allow patients needing multiple surgeries to receive them in one room, reducing complications and recovery time.
Mercyhealth’s campus on Rockton Avenue is home to a wide variety of primary and specialty care services, including cancer care, gastroenterology, outpatient surgery, family medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics, ophthalmology, sub-acute care, a Prehospital and Emergency Services Center, and much more. Mercyhealth also offers home health and hospice services, helping residents remain in their home as long as possible.
In addition, to address the growing shortage of qualified primary care physicians across the nation, Mercyhealth has developed Family Medicine and Internal Medicine residency programs in Rockford. It also operates schools of radiography and sonography.
An entity of Mercyhealth, MercyCare Health Plans offers quality, affordable health care coverage to individuals and businesses. Together, MercyCare Health Plans and Mercyhealth offer a complete continuum of health care services readily available to its members close to home.
