For Physicians & Staff

This section is designed as a portal for prospective and current Mercy Hospital medical staff. We have collected here a variety of links and resources we hope you will find useful.

Patient Guide Printouts

We have compiled all of our patient guides here in PDF format. This will make it easy for you to print them all at once for your patients. Click any of the PDFs below to open the document and then print it. If you would like to save one of the guides to your hard drive, just right click the link, and choose "Save Target As…".

• Open Heart Surgery Handbook

• Cardiac Patient Care Handbook
  • What is Angina?
  • MI Guidelines
  • Nitroglycerin
  • PTCA Guidelines
  • Stent Guidelines
  • Discharge Instructions for Patients with Pacemakers
  • ICD General Information
  • Discharge Instructions for Patients with ICDs
  • Smoking Cessation

How to Use Our Site

This site contains a wide range of useful tools and detailed information to assist you in caring for your patients. Nearly all of the pages are available in a printer friendly format, and can also be emailed.

Here are some examples of content on this site that we believe patients will find helpful:

• A free and confidential printable health history to assist families in keeping their health records up to date, accurate, and handy
• Daily logs for monitoring seizures, behavior, asthma, and other important data
• Maps and preadmission instructions
• Easy to read information on a wide variety of medical conditions, with links to Medline and other online resources
• Links to useful resources in our own community
• Links to other useful sites online

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