Pittsburgh Mercy
1200 Reedsdale Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15233-2109 USA
By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator Since their arrival in Pittsburgh on December 21, 1843, the Sisters of Mercy have focused on the importance of education. Not only did they open …
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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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By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator “There is no darkness so dense, so menacing or so difficult, that it can’t be overcome by light.” That quote from Vern P. Stanfill is …
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By Zandy Dudiak, Communications coordinator As with so many other Americans, Jonathan Berry wasn’t quite sure what to do when he had the chance to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine …
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