Genesis Health System

Established by Mother Mary Borromeo Johnson and the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Hospital received its first patient on Dec. 7, 1869. The construction of Mercy marked the third hospital west of the Mississippi River. In 1872, St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Mentally Ill was opened adjacent to Mercy Hospital. It is this facility that would eventually burn down in 1950, causing the death of 40 patients.

Because of the 1918 flu pandemic, Mercy Hospital was forced to open an extension in Turner Hall in order to accommodate the ill. Come 1924, Mercy Hospital was one of the first hospitals accredited by the American College of Surgeons, a predecessor to The Joint Commission.

Though a new wing was opened at Mercy Hospital in 1932, the original building was later demolished, replaced by an entirely new facility in 1954. The idea to merge Mercy Hospital and St. Luke's was introduced in 1973 but was initially rejected.

Another new Mercy Hospital was constructed 1978, with the construction of medical office buildings following just two years later in 1980. In order to fit the needs of a growing patient population, Mercy Hospital announced plans to expand again in 1987.

In 1993, the boards of St. Luke's and Mercy Hospital agreed to merge. This merger would be completed in 1994.

Founded in 1893 at the corner of 8th and Main Street in Davenport, St. Luke's Hospital mainly acted as an emergency care facility, allowing Mercy to focus more so on longterm care. In 1914, St. Luke's relocated to East Rusholme Street, the current location of Genesis Medical Center, East Campus.

In 1951 and again in 1964, additions to the new St. Luke's facility were completed.

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Consisting of two different campuses, the East and West locations operate within relation to one another, combining approximately 450 physicians, 3,100 staff members and 1,000 volunteers. Both facilities offer a number of services including emergency room care, physical therapy, and diagnostic imaging. In December 2013, Genesis announced a $138.5 million expansion to add a new hospital tower to its East campus (former St. Luke's) to integrate certain medical services onto one campus. The project is expected to be completed in 2017.[3]

Genesis Medical Center, Silvis Campus is a 150-bed, full-service, acute care medical center, providing both inpatient and outpatient services while maintaining a level II trauma center. Like the East campus in Davenport, the facility also features a birthing unit.

Opened in 1952, DeWitt offers a variety of both inpatient and outpatient services, contrary to the fact that it is considered a rural hospital. In 2012, DeWitt was given the "Summit Award" by Press Ganey Associates, a merit that recognizes hospitals that have sustained the highest level of customer satisfaction for three or more consecutive years.

Having joined the health system in 2013, Aledo is a 22-bed, critical access hospital. Because it is the only hospital in the county, the facility offers a number of outpatient and inpatient services, including emergency room care.

Genesis Health Group is a regional network of physicians and primary care providers who are associated with Genesis Health System. There are over 160 associated physicians and 40 offices within Genesis Health Group, serving a similar area to what is served by Genesis Health System.

HealthPlex is the modern format used by the standard Genesis doctors offices. They have four locations in the Quad Cities, one in Moline, one in Davenport, and two in Bettendorf. These offer a variety of services ranging from convenient care (urgent care), family doctors, and labs, among others.

The first to carry the Genesis HealthPlex branding, it is a modern, and upscale-esk doctors office located off of 41st Street in Moline, not far from CVS and Walgreens. This office has family doctors, convenient care, occupational health, and a laboratory for things such as blood work. Occupational Health handles work physicals if you work in a place such as a meat plant. Tyson has a partnership with Genesis Moline to provide work physicals through Occupational Health. This building was designed to replace the aging convenient care in a mini-strip mall that houses a Jimmy Johns (previously American Bank and Trust), as that building was small, and did not have enough room for a lab, which meant you had to go to The Larson Center located at Genesis Medical Center, Silvis, if you needed things such as blood work done. That convenient care was also on 41st street, being directly across the street from the aforementioned Walgreens

While it was never called a HealthPlex, the Genesis building off of Lincoln Way was in many ways a foreshadowing of the HealthPlex concept in that it featured many of the same features such as family doctors and a lab. It did not feature a convenient care, but did feature other services such as Gynecological/OB-GYN services. Most of the services in that building such as family doctors have moved to the new HealthPlex building, also in Bettendorf. As of 2016, all that remains is Gynecological/OB-GYN services and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics related programs, of which they are affiliated with.

This is the second building to be built with the HealthPlex branding, and is very similar to the one in Moline. It is located off of 53rd Avenue in Bettendorf. It has many of the same features as the Moline campus, and was designed to replace the aging Lincoln Way campus (itself a foreshadow of the HealthPlex concept) as many of the services located there moved to the new location. As of 2016, a few services did not move to the new building. These included Gynecological/OB-GYN services and services related to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

This is the third building built with the HealthPlex branding, and is located off of West Kimberly Road. This offers the same services as the Moline and Bettendorf locations.