by - April 29, 2026 2:51 pm
Mercy Fort Smith announced Wednesday (April 29) that the hospital system has raised enough money to fully fund the $41 million expansion of its Fort Smith cancer center. What is…
by - April 7, 2026 2:38 pm
For the second time in seven days, officials at Mercy Fort Smith are making public the hospital’s “commitment” to the Fort Smith metro. The St. Louis-based hospital system on Tuesday…
by - March 12, 2026 2:18 pm
Rising demand for primary care services and the need to expand a medical residency program in collaboration with the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) were the primary reasons for…
by - August 8, 2025 1:18 pm
The response to a “plague on our community” that is cancer, which is faced by more than 5,000 in the Fort Smith medical service area, will be improved with Mercy…
by - August 6, 2025 2:47 pm
Mercy Fort Smith is moving forward to build a cancer center on its main campus at 7001 Rogers Ave., with a ceremonial groundbreaking set for Friday (Aug. 8). Officials with…
by - May 2, 2025 5:02 pm
Fort Smith may arguably be the third-largest city in Arkansas and center of the state’s third-largest metro area, but the Mercy Fort Smith hospital emergency room is the busiest in…
by - April 8, 2025 4:10 pm
Mercy Fort Smith on Tuesday (April 8) opened its first clinic in Roland, Okla., just across the border from Fort Smith. The facility at 106 W. Ray Fine Blvd., will…
by - February 13, 2025 4:36 pm
The Cherokee Nation on Thursday (Feb. 13) announced an $8 million contribution to Mercy-Fort Smith for its planned cancer center. The hospital system has been relatively quiet about the planned…
by - October 4, 2024 7:25 pm
Mercy has opened a 65 Prime+ clinic in Fort Smith that is focused on providing care to Medicare patients age 65 and older. The hospital system says it’s the first…
by - August 20, 2024 12:54 pm
The excitement is growing, along with square footage, at Mercy Hospital Fort Smith as they steadily move toward opening a new emergency room and intensive care unit in the first…
by - August 17, 2024 11:32 am
Mercy Fort Smith has invested more than $7.8 million to expand clinical access in Alma and Greenwood. The hospital system could add as many as four providers and physicians and…
by - April 1, 2024 4:49 pm
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith announced Monday (April 1) that Jason Demke has joined the staff as the new chief operating officer. Demke replaces Ryan Geib, who left Mercy Fort Smith…
by - January 17, 2024 7:03 pm
Recent approval by the Fort Smith Planning Commission to rezone property at 8100 Phoenix Ave. to a Planned Zoning District moves Mercy Fort Smith a step closer to building a…
by - October 26, 2023 5:15 pm
The $186 million-expansion to add ICU and emergency room space and more than 160 jobs at Mercy Fort Smith is on schedule and expected to be complete by early 2025….
by - July 12, 2023 11:08 am
Mercy broke ground a new clinic in Greenwood Tuesday (July 11) in a move to expand family medicine to the city. Construction of the new $7.96 million facility is expected…
by - April 11, 2023 5:05 pm
Mercy Fort Smith has invested just under $3 million to install a new GE Omni Legend PET/CT scanner, with General Electric saying the Fort Smith hospital is the first in…
by - February 8, 2023 4:41 pm
Recent extreme winter weather has not slowed the progress of a major expansion of Mercy Fort Smith, but inflation has added more than $20 million to the hospital project that…
by - November 29, 2022 6:24 pm
Mercy Fort Smith will open three new urgent care centers in the next few months. The three new Mercy-GoHealth centers will replace two existing Mercy Convenient Care centers in Fort…
by - November 16, 2022 6:25 pm
Officials with Mercy Fort Smith and Fort Smith Mayor George McGill gathered on a cold Wednesday (Nov. 16) to break ground on a $3.6 million primary care clinic at 4600…
by - July 21, 2022 3:52 pm
An announced plan by St. Louis-based Mercy health system to build a cancer center in Northwest Arkansas will not halt plans for a similar center in Fort Smith, according to…
