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EXCEPTIONAL HEALTHCARE
ST. LOUIS TOPS MANY-A LIST FOR SUPERIOR HEALTHCARE.
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By Jane Beckerdite
Chances are great that whatever ails you can be treated in St. Louis. Exceptional medical care is right in our back yard. And St. Louis’ reputation as an international medical magnet is gaining muscle.
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Barnes-Jewish Hospital the eighth best hospital in the nation. At Washington University Medical Center, Barnes-Jewish is the largest hospital in Missouri and the largest private employer in St. Louis city. An affiliated teaching hospital of Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish has a 1,700-member medical staff and employs more than 9,000 people.
 For the second consecutive time, St. Louis Children’s has been named by Child magazine as one of the nation’s 10 best pediatric hospitals. |
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Adding to its reputation, the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish and Washington University School of Medicine in early January received official designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center from the National Cancer Institute. With this new recognition, it is one of only 39 Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the country. Siteman is the only institution in Missouri to hold the comprehensive designation, with the next closest center located in Chicago.
“Our patients have access to leading-edge treatments as a result of research from the second-ranked medical school in the nation. As the third leading recipient of National Institutes of Health grant money for medical research funding, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital are proud of advancements they’ve developed through bench-to-bedside research and treatment,” says Jennifer Arvin, Barnes-Jewish public relations manager.
Right next door to Barnes-Jewish is St. Louis Children’s Hospital, which has the world’s largest pediatric lung transplant program, having performed more than 270 such transplants. Patients have come from as far as Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Israel to take advantage of this hospital’s life-saving abilities.
For the second consecutive time, St. Louis Children’s has been named by Child magazine as one of the nation’s 10 best pediatric hospitals. Children’s Hospital is the only medical facility in Missouri to achieve this ranking.
“It’s wonderful to see the facility as a whole, and the emergency, cardiology and oncology departments, singled out to receive this much-deserved honor,” says Hospital President Lee Fetter. “It’s a testament to the top talent and remarkable dedication of our entire staff and physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine.”
St. Louis Children’s Hospital recently celebrated a milestone anniversary.
“As the seventh oldest pediatric hospital in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi, St. Louis Children’s Hospital has been leading the way in children’s health for 125 years,” says Fetter.
An $80 million expansion is under way at Children’s Hospital that will add 95,000 square feet to the hospital’s 12-story structure. The number of patient beds will increase from 235 to 250 with 80 percent of those in private rooms. This will provide the medical facility more private rooms than any other pediatric hospital in the bi-state area.
| An $80 million expansion is under way at Children’s Hospital that will add 95,000 square feet to the hospital’s 12-story structure. |
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Pediatrician-in-Chief Alan Schwartz, PhD., M.D., acknowledged that education and collaboration were key components to his hospital’s success.
“We have a long and distinguished history of important scholarship in the department of pediatrics, and we are privileged this year to honor the 125th year of St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the 150th year of Washington University and its medical school. This has been a tremendous synergy for the department of pediatrics,” he says.
As one of the nation’s largest Catholic hospitals and the second largest hospital in metropolitan
St. Louis, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center operates a Level I Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. To expound on that accomplishment, St. John’s Mercy plans to invest $500 million in a renewal plan to include new and redesigned facilities and patient services, primarily to its Creve Coeur campus. The initial phase of the project began in 2003 with the start of construction of its new Cancer Center of Excellence.
The multi-year renewal efforts by St. John’s Mercy will include a heart/cardiovascular center of excellence, a patient tower addition that will bring together women’s and children’s services, additional ambulatory surgery/OR suites, 120,000 square feet of additional physician office space, a new emergency room and trauma center, parking improvements, regional ambulatory facilities, and an energy center.
Just on the western edge of St. Louis is
St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. St. Luke’s has been recognized five out of six times for cardiovascular services and is the only
St. Louis area hospital to make the list four consecutive years. More than 6,000 hospitals and 12 million patient discharges were evaluated for the list, according to research conducted by Modern Healthcare. Additionally, St. Luke’s is one of only 77 hospitals in the nation selected as a Top 100 Hospital for Overall Performance at least four times within 10 years, resulting in Top Benchmark designation. The annual study identifies industry standards by recognizing hospitals that demonstrate superior clinical, operational, and financial performance.
St. Luke’s Hospital was the first hospital in St. Louis to
implement electronic medical records, remote access to
those records for physicians, and a hospital-wide
barcode point-of-care system. |
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And as a means to improve patient care even further, St. Luke’s was the first hospital in St. Louis to implement electronic medical records, remote access to those records for physicians, and a hospital-wide barcode point-of-care system. This bedside system enhances the safe administration of medication by identifying potential errors before they occur, and by providing healthcare teams real-time medication tracking at the patient’s bedside.
“Everything that we do at St. Luke’s is grounded in our mission of improving the health of our community,” says Gary Olson, president and CEO. “Our teams have done an outstanding job of communicating with our medical staff and creating a system that truly affords us the ability to provide safe, efficient care to our patients.”
Exceptional quality has earned Barnes-Jewish Hospital a place on U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s best hospitals for the past 12 years. As the only Honor Roll hospital within 500 miles of St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish is home to 16 specialties ranked among the best nationally, including cancer; digestive disorders; ear, nose and throat; eyes; geriatrics; gynecology; heart and heart surgery; hormonal disorders; kidney disease; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopaedics; pediatrics; psychiatry; respiratory disorders; rheumatology; and urology.
U.S. News & World Report
recently ranked Barnes-Jewish Hospital the
eighth best hospital in the nation. |
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To that end, Arvin says world-class medical care, from cancer treatment to organ transplants, is available right here in St. Louis.
“The Siteman Cancer Center offers a multidisciplinary team of more than 300 preeminent clinicians and medical researchers. Barnes-Jewish has the only comprehensive transplant center in the region offering heart, heart/lung, lung, double lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, islet cell and bone marrow transplants. In addition to achieving outcomes that meet or beat national averages, the transplant program is known for quality and continuity of care,” she says.
So no matter the medical need, whether now or in the future, people here and abroad trust their healthcare needs to the medical professionals in St. Louis. And it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see why. We’ve got world-class technology—and experts who know how to use it.
Medical Muscle
By Jane Beckerdite
SSM Health Care became the first health care organization in the country to be
named a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner. The award, which is given
by the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the top honor a U.S. company can receive
for quality achievement
St. Luke’s Hospital is counted among the Top 100 Hospitals for cardiovascular services for the past four consecutive years
Child magazine in 2005 ranks St. Louis Children’s Hospital on their list of the 10 Best Pediatric Hospitals in the nation. The hospital’s academic and physician partner, Washington University School of Medicine, is ranked the 2nd best medical school
in the country by U.S. News & World Report
St. John’s Mercy Medical Center undergoes a $500 million campus renewal plan
The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is designated in 2005 as a Comprehensive Cancer Center—one of 39 in the country—from the National Cancer Institute
St. Louis Children’s Hospital has the world’s largest pediatric lung transplant program and has performed more than 270 lung transplant procedures
St. Luke’s Hospital website receives second place honors for Patient Education Information for a hospital/healthcare system website
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital plans to expand its pediatric hospital
campus with a $59 million building that will house a 60-bed neonatal intensive care
unit and 10 state-of-the-art operating rooms
St. John’s Mercy Medical Center operates a Level I Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
For the four years in a row, St. Anthony’s Medical Center received a grant from the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund to continue purchasing and distributing infant massage
kits to all new parents
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville is the first hospital in the St. Louis area accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers
St. Louis Children’s Hospital is one of the top three pediatric transplant centers in the country and the largest in the Midwest
The world’s first removal of a patient’s kidney through laparascopic surgery was performed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. More recently, the mini-nephrectomy procedure, which provides significant health benefits to the living donor and the recipient, was developed here |
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