Mercy Cedar Rapids will celebrate the area’s newest and largest freestanding ER in Marion with a ribbon-cutting, as well as a community open house, in mid-November.
The new facility is located at 999 35th St. in Marion.
The ribbon-cutting for the Mercy Marion ER will take place Friday, Nov. 15 at 11:30 a.m. This event is by invitation.
The community open house will take place the next day – Saturday, Nov. 16 – from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can enjoy refreshments and tour the new ER facility, situated right next to MercyCare Marion Family Practice and Urgent Care.
Then, beginning Dec. 2, the Mercy Marion ER will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with services including:
- 12 exam and 2 trauma rooms
- Blood-draw and other lab services
- Imaging services, including X-ray, ultrasound and CT scans
- Permanent helicopter pad for flight needs
- The area’s leading ER services and trauma level care
- Co-located next to Mercy family practice and urgent care clinics for a variety of medical needs
This will be the second off-site, hospital-based extension of Mercy’s emergency department. Mercy’s Hiawatha emergency location opened in 2020 and was the first ER in Iowa available outside of a hospital-based setting.
Like the Mercy Hiawatha ER, patients at the Marion location that require additional hospital intervention will be transferred free of charge to Mercy’s downtown location based on well-developed protocols and in partnership with local ambulance services.
