Mercy Hospital

"To anyone who can hear this, proceed to Mercy Hospital for evacuation! I repeat, proceed to Mercy Hospital for evacuation!"

- News Chopper 5 Pilot

"Louis... You'd look good in one of those hospital gowns."

- Zoey

Mercy Hospital is a large, 30-floor hospital located in the city of Fairfield. The address of this hospital is 444 South 42nd Street (as seen on the CEDA posters) and has a 215 area code. The Survivors seek rescue at Mercy Hospital in the No Mercy campaign in Left 4 Dead.

History
This hospital is one of the main medical centers in the entire city of Fairfield. Because of its large capacity of patients and laboratories, it is one of the city's tallest buildings. The hospital has an Emergency Department where ambulances can transport people in desperate need of medical attention.
 * The first floor is part of the Emergency Department and therefore has several examination rooms where patients would be examined by doctors and nurses.
 * The second floor has the hospital's cafeteria and kitchen.
 * The third floor is mainly hospital administration as there are more offices and only a few patient rooms.
 * The fourth floor is the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and is equipped with laboratories, multiple patient rooms, and isolation rooms to prevent diseases from spreading to other hospital patients and staff.Mercy_hospital.jpeg
 * The 28th and 29th floors are newly added (or under renovation) and are undergoing construction.
 * The rooftop (30th floor) is equipped with several AC units, searchlights, electrical and mechanical machinery rooms, and a medical helipad where patients can be transported by helicopter to and from Mercy Hospital.

Current Status
The hospital appears to be one of the first places to have handled the Infected. This is made obvious by looking at the containment efforts (isolation rooms) near the elevator, which are the rooms with biohazard signs outside them. On these signs, Mercy and CEDA staff have marked the virus as "N/A", meaning they had no idea what the virus was and were attempting to separate the Infected from the public. Given that the staff of the hospital had no knowledge of the Green Flu or its incredibly contagious nature, they were hard pressed to deal with their patients. The virus quickly spread throughout the entire hospital and was soon overrun. Upon realizing how dire the situation was, CEDA declared a state of emergency, calling for the entire city to be evacuated to try and control the spread of the disease. However, with one of Fairfield's main medical centers overrun with Infected, CEDA pulled out and abandoned the evac site leaving the city defenseless against the infection. The Survivors fought their way through the hospital to get to the roof, and then defended their position on the roof until News Chopper 5 arrived and rescued them.