Congratulations and thanks are in order for all the members of Common Spirit Mercy’s Pediatric Emergency Care Committee for a job very well done with becoming COPPER verified!  Our friends at Mercy officially applied and entered into the process of working through the program guidelines & checklist of requirements  necessary to meet the COPPER program standards back in January and the folks at EMS for Children Colorado are thoroughly impressed with how quickly and how well they able to work towards achieving this accomplishment!

Statistics show that Emergency Departments who achieve Pediatric Rediness scores of 87 pts or higher reduce mortality rates by 76% for all patients, and 60% for trauma patients.  The 25 Colorado facilities that are now COPPER verified have an average score of 96 and Mercy Hospital now ranks among the first 25% of the facilities in Colorado to achieve this status.  This represents Mercy’s ongoing commitment to our community and we thank you all for embracing this important work!