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Mercy Hospital will become the second hospital in Toledo this decade to shut down, joining nearby Parkview Hospital on the casualty list.
Mercy Health System-Northern Region (MHS-NR) announced in September that the central city hospital would be ceasing to accept overnight and emergency patients starting December 31, 1996.
Unlike Parkview, the buildings at Mercy will not be shuttered, however, as the site will become a "Regional Support Campus and Outpatient Care Center, providing physician offices, outpatient surgery and expanded primary care clinics," according to a Mercy Health System news release.
"As the system's Regional Support Campus, the Mercy campus will house consolidated support services such as finance, planning, marketing and materials management. The Mercy campus will also serve as the site to combine the two nursing education programs at Mercy and St. Vincent into the Mercy College of Northwest Ohio," the news release indicated.
The health system's board cited "its commitment to mission, public accountability and the importance of providing leadership in reducing Toledo's excess hospital bed capacity," as reasons behind the Mercy closing.
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