Primghar, Iowa — The system that serves one of the hospitals and several clinics in northwest Iowa is getting a rebranding. Baum Harmon-Mercy’s system, the Mercy Health Network is getting a new name.
New signs are going up outside the facilities of the Mercy Health Network as the organization changes its name to “MercyOne.” MercyOne President and CEO Bob Ritz, says the name change is part of a larger ongoing process following the 1998 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Trinity Health.
The organization has 18 owned or joint venture medical centers and hospitals, along with 25 affiliated medical centers and 420 clinics.
MercyOne has 18 hospitals or medical centers in western, central and northern Iowa. He says a large part of the change is creating one culture among all the facilities.
Ritz is traveling around to the facilities in Iowa as part of the start of the name change.
Right now there are a lot of changes to signs and other items.
The MercyOne change comes five years after another major health system made a name change. The Iowa Health System changed its name to Unity Point back in 2013.
MercyOne has medical centers and hospitals in Des Moines, West Des Moines, Clive, Centerville, Newton, Sioux City, Primghar, Dubuque, Clinton, Dyersville, Elkader, Waterloo, Oelwein, Cedar Falls, Mason City, and New Hampton.
