** About Us **
Misericordia Health Centre has been providing quality faith-based health care to Manitobans since 1898.
Today, Misericordia plays a critical role within the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. We offer a diverse range of health-care programs – everything from walk-in Urgent Care to Misericordia Place, our 100-bed personal care home. People who need eye or dental surgery, have broken an ankle or are living with a respiratory illness come to us for specialized care. We also operate the Provincial Health Contact Centre, including the provincial health information service Health Links-Info Santé.
** Our Mission **
To offer accessible, quality health care to those in need in accordance with the Catholic tradition of ethical and spiritual values.
** Our Vision **
Misericordia Health Centre is a leading provider of diverse health-care services within the Winnipeg Health Region specializing in unique out-patient programs as well as care designed to meet the needs of an aging population.
MHC’s culture of compassionate, faith-based care is built on the values of the Misericordia Sisters. Our warm and welcoming environment is holistic: meeting the medical, physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of every resident and patient.
Our multicultural staff and volunteers live the Misericordia Sisters’ Mission in their delivery of clinical and service excellence. We promote quality and patient safety through evidence-based practice and research. We work together in strong interdisciplinary teams, dedicated to caring for our residents, patients and each other.
Misericordia is a vibrant community resource, continuously evolving to respond to the changing health-care needs of Manitobans. The community we serve recognizes MHC as an innovative provider of health services through compassionate care, teamwork and accountability to our stakeholders.
** Our Values **
Caring. Respect. Trust
History Of Misericordia Health Centre
The Misericordia Sisters began their service here in Winnipeg in 1898. The Sisters played a strong role in the community, taking care of young single mothers and their babies. Their commitment was to serve, a true reflection of their motto: Compassion of the heart for those in need.
The need for their caring service quickly grew. Their early days foreshadowed the development of expanded service that would bring the Sisters’ health-care provision to a new and broader base. Their facility, owned and operated by the Sisters, eventually expanded and became known as the Misericordia General Hospital.
During much of this early period, service expanded to meet the growing needs of this thriving prairie community. At that time, funding came from charity and private payment for services. Over the years, funding later came from the province.
More recently, our facility ownership changed from the Misericordia Sisters to the Misericordia Corporation within the Archdiocese of Winnipeg. Today, funding for programs and services is administered through the Winnipeg Health Region and charitable donations.
