Pittsburgh Mercy
1200 Reedsdale Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15233-2109 USA
By Shalisa Wall, Homeless Services care manager I’m a new colleague at Pittsburgh Mercy Family Health Center (PMFHC), working with Homeless Services. I started my new job on April 12 …
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Editor’s Note: National Nurses Week is May 6-12, 2021. By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator More than 177 years ago, on December 1843, seven Sisters of Mercy arrived in Pittsburgh and …
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By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator It’s been a while since Sister Rebecca Nolan, Amy Armanious, and Kathy Conrad have used their nursing skills in a medical setting. COVID-19, and specifically …
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By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator Since December 2020, Pittsburgh Mercy has been providing contact tracing as another way to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Allegheny Health Department (ACHD), with support …
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By Zandy Dudiak Communications coordinator When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last spring, the Service Coordination (SC) Department was sidelined. “We were asked to reinvent ourselves without having person-to-person contact,” says …
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By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator Sometimes, old adages are true. Take, for instance, “what comes around, goes around.” That certainly came true for the Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh recently. …
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By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator The pandemic has changed the way that Tammy Perry has approached her job as a service coordinator based at Reedsdale. Instead of seeing individuals she …
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By Tina Harper, Communications administrative assistant Referring to the COVID-19 vaccine, Norman Barkley, certified peer specialist in the admissions center at South 9th Street, remarked, “I’m happy to have gotten it!” …
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I got my vaccination for Joe. He was stubborn and had not wanted to go to the hospital. I held his hand and listened to him struggle to breathe. He …
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By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator Diane Johnson, admittedly, is a social butterfly. But for most of the last year, Diane has felt like she’s been living in a cocoon. “I …
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