Meet Me in St. Louis: Thrive
Southwest's Spirit Magazine
June 2010
Home to 61 hospitals and two prestigious medical schools (at Saint Louis and Washington universities)
St. Louis offers worldclass health care:
- U.S. News and World Report heralded Saint Louis University Hospital for its geriatric program. The report also ranked Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center ninth in the nation on its 2009 list of "America's Best Hospitals." Siteman Cancer Center, a partnership of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, is the only center in the state to be designated a "Comprehensive Cancer Center" by the National Cancer Institute.
- St. Louis Children's Hospital made the top 10 in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Children's Hospitals" last year. Its pediatric organ transplant program is one of the most successful in the country.
- This year, four area hospitals (Missouri Baptist Medical Center, SSM Saint Joseph Health Center at St. Charles, SSM St. Mary's Health Center, and St. Luke's Hospital) received Health- Grades' Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence Award. The leading independent health-care ratings company also listed St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield as one of "America's 50 Best Hospitals" for the fourth year in a row.
- St. Anthony's Medical Center recently finished a $90 million expansion, adding a pediatric emergency department and a Heart and Surgical Pavilion.
- St. John's Mercy Medical Center boasts a 100,000-square-foot Cancer Center, a Children's Hospital, a Surgery Center, and a Heart and Vascular Hospital. The new five-floor patient tower includes expanded neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.
