Mercy Health St. Rita's Medical Center is a large hospital serving a 70-mile radius of Lima, Ohio, United States. It was started in 1918 by Sisters of Mercy, an order of Roman Catholic women founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland in 1831. There are also separate facilities in Delphos, Bluffton, Glandorf and Wapakoneta that serve other parts of the region for rehabilitation, orthopedics and other medical services.