Expansion Opportunity Mercy College is planning a new nursing building and has recently invested in assets, signaling upcoming capacity growth. This expansion creates potential cross-sell opportunities for healthcare education technology, campus management solutions, simulation labs, and facilities management partnerships.

Strategic Partnerships Collaboration with Mount Carmel College of Nursing to expand radiologic technologist offerings suggests a regional demand-supply gap and openness to joint programs. This indicates opportunities for partner-friendly solutions in shared curricula, accreditation support, and inter-institutional cloud or LMS integrations.

Leadership Turnaround New executive leadership in early 2026, including a CEO/publisher and mission-focused VP, implies a potential openness to refreshed technology stacks, modern marketing, digital transformation, and analytics to align with mission-driven growth and recruitment.

Digital & Recruitment Active engagement on LinkedIn and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) alongside a focus on mission and campus culture suggests opportunities to provide student recruitment marketing, employer relationship management, and scalable cloud-based enrollment systems tailored to a mid-sized health sciences college.

Regional Workforce Needs The school operates in Des Moines with a focus on healthcare programs and has revenue in the mid-range for private higher ed. There is potential to offer allied health program design, simulation labs, AI-based tutoring, and compliance/training solutions to support growing regional demand for healthcare professionals.