BJC HealthCare is a non-profit health care organization based in St. Louis, Missouri.
[3][4] In 1994, Missouri Baptist Medical Center and St. Louis Children's Hospital joined BJC HealthCare.
[7] It is the adult teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine and is one of three Level I trauma centers in St.
The facility offers the area's only balloon angioplasty program, open MRI through Twin Rivers MRI Center, CT services, PET imaging, and nuclear medicine and other advanced medical imaging services, as well as cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Construction was also begun in 2008 on a two-story $28 million expansion project to add 64 additional patient rooms, a new inpatient pharmacy and medical office space to the facility.
Barnes–Jewish St. Peters also houses a satellite facility of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, which is a partnership between BJSPH and the Washington University School of Medicine.
Barnes–Jewish West County Hospital is a member of BJC HealthCare and employs nearly 500 health care professionals.
The SLCH transport team, which covers hospitals primarily in Missouri and Illinois, is composed of a specially trained physician, a critical care nurse, and a paramedic, with respiratory therapists accompanying the team as needed, and can be en route within 30 minutes.
[20] In 2010 Thomson Reuters named Missouri Baptist Medical Center a "Top 100" hospital for the second year in a row.
[21] Missouri Baptist Medical Center has also received high marks by HealthGrades, a health care rating organization.
The facility serves almost 22,000 patients yearly and offers pulmonary, cancer, cardiac, behavioral, OB/Gyn, and rehabilitative care.
[24] Progress West offers a wide array of cardiac, surgical, birthing, and orthopedic services, along with an emergency department and a six-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
In 2014, the Joint Commission rated Christian Hospital a “Top Performer on Key Quality Measures” for achieving excellence in accountability measures of performance for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.
[32] Christian Hospital's Northwest HealthCare campus in Florissant, Missouri, includes a satellite facility of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center.
Services include: emergency department, sleep lab, bone density testing, mammography, ultrasound and MRI.
[33] A satellite facility of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center opened on the Northwest HealthCare campus in 2019.
According to the terms of the affiliation agreement, BJC could exercise its right to obtain sole ownership of MRHS after five years and upon achievement of certain conditions.
[38] The hospital has a 108-bed skilled nursing facility on its campus and as of 2007 was the busiest emergency room in the Metro East with 50,000 annual visits.
A satellite facility of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center opened on the Memorial Hospital Shiloh campus in 2020.