JANESVILLE -- Mercy Health System, based in Janesville recently was named number eight in the list of Top 10 Healing Hospitals by Baptist Healing Trust, based in Nashville, Tenn.

The honor was based on evaluation of available data, implementation of effective health care strategies, and the creation of a compassionate and quality culture for its patients, community members and employees.

Mercy was selected for this honor because it has achieved impressive high patient satisfaction scores and for having a balance of quality and compassionate care.

Mercy Health System was founded in 1895 and is a not-for-profit, vertically integrated, multi-specialty health system that serves more than one million individuals through its 64 facilities in 24 southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois communities. Mercy employs more than 300 physicians and nearly 4,000 employees, who are called partners. Mercy Health System is headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin. Visit www.MercyHealthSystem.org for more information about Mercy Health System.

Baptist Healing Trust is a non-profit Christian foundation committed to the practice of Erie Chapman's concept of radical loving care. Baptist Healing Trust awards grants and a majority of its investment income to health care organizations and programs that advocate caring with a servant's heart, healing for the mind, body and spirit, loving with respect and without reservation, creating cultures of mindfulness, wisdom, justice and peace.