BJC HealthCare
Encyclopedia
BJC HealthCare is a non-profit health care organization based in St. Louis, Missouri
. It is the St. Louis area's—and one of Missouri's—biggest employers. BJC includes two nationally recognized academic hospitals - Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, which are both affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine.
In addition to operating 13 hospitals in Missouri and Illinois, BJC HealthCare operates BJC Home Care Services, the oldest home care service west of the Mississippi, which offers hospice, home infusion, and medical equipment services; BJC Corporate Health Services, including BarnesCare, an occupational health organization; BJC Behavioral Health, offering behavioral health services to children and adults in the St. Louis metropolitan area and in the Missouri counties of Washington, Iron and St. Francois; and BJC Medical Group, which employs more than 200 primary and specialty physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
BJC HealthCare facilities consistently rank among the top hospitals in the country.
is the largest hospital in Missouri with 1,228 beds and is known as the flagship of BJC HealthCare. It is the adult teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine
and is one of three Level I trauma centers in St. Louis.
Barnes-Jewish was formed by the 1996 merger of two hospitals, Barnes Hospital and The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, which were built in proximity to each other on the eastern edge of Forest Park. Barnes Hospital opened on December 7, 1914 at its current location on Kingshighway Boulevard. It was established by the bequest of Robert A. Barnes upon his death in 1892. Jewish Hospital was created in 1902 on a different site on Delmar Boulevard by the leaders of the St. Louis Jewish community. It moved to its current location two blocks away from Barnes Hospital in 1927.
The current facility houses the Charles F. Knight
Emergency and Trauma Center, which is a 52,000-square-foot, 61-bed Level I trauma center that includes two full-body CT scanners and six trauma/critical care rooms. A helipad with private elevator access is also located on the roof.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital also contains within the Center for Advanced Medicine The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, which is a partnership between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine
. The Siteman Cancer Center is the only cancer center in Missouri which holds Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital has earned a place on U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s best hospitals for the past 18 years and is home to 15 specialties ranked among the best nationally. In 2010, it was ranked 8th in the country by U.S. News & World Report
.
is a 394-bed hospital owned by Boone Country and administered by BJC HealthCare. The facility is a Level II trauma center as well as a regional referral center excelling in heart services, neurology, obstetrics and cancer services.
Boone Hospital operates four ambulances in Boone County. They are located at bases in Centralia, the northeast side of Columbia, and on the Boone Hospital grounds. They, along with the University Hospital ambulance service, provide emergency care for the entire county.
In 2005, the hospital became the first Mid-Missouri facility to receive the Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and it also was honored as one of the nation’s top 100 hospitals by Thomson Reuters in 2010.
Alton Memorial Hospital recently opened a new 76-bed patient care tower. The Duncan Wing houses the hospital's Surgical Care Unit (12 beds), Intermediate Care Unit (32 beds) and Medical Care Unit (32 beds). Six observation rooms also are available on the ground floor.
Alton Memorial Hospital was also a recipient of a 2009-2010 Hospital Value Index: Best in Value Award by a Data Advantage LLC study.
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters also houses a satellite facility of the Siteman Cancer Center, which is a partnership between BJSPH and the Washington University School of Medicine
.
The hospital received a 2009 HealthGrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award for being in the Top 10 percent in the nation for patient satisfaction.
is a 250-bed pediatric hospital that provides services to the St. Louis metropolitan area and a primary service region covering six states. The facility is the pediatric teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine
. Founded in 1879, SLCH is the oldest pediatric hospital west of the Mississippi River and the 7th oldest in the United States.
St. Louis Children's Hospital is a world-renowned hospital that offers every possible pediatric specialty and sees more than 275,000 patients each year. The facility has performed more pediatric lung transplants than any other institution in the world, was the first hospital to administer insulin to a pediatric patient in the United States, and performed the first split-liver transplant on a child. 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.
In 2009, Parents magazine ranked St. Louis Children's Hospital #5 on its list of the 10 Best Children's Hospitals in the country. Also in 2010, the hospital was named by U.S. News & World Report to its Honor Roll of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals, as it has been for the past eight years.
In addition to a 20-bed emergency room for adults, MBMC has a full-size emergency room just for kids, with nine beds plus six more for longer term, in-patient care. The ER is staffed with nurses and physicians who specialize in pediatric medicine.
In 2010 Thomson Reuters named Missouri Baptist Medical Center a "Top 100" hospital for the second year in a row.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center has also received high marks by HealthGrades
, a health care rating organization. In 2010, the hospital was rated #1 for overall Cardiac Services in Missouri, as well as receiving the Cardiac Care Excellence Award and Coronary Intervention Excellence Award for 2009 and 2010.
Progress West offers a wide array of cardiac, surgical, birthing, and orthopedic services, along with an emergency department and six Intensive Care Units (ICU). PWHC also has a branch of St. Louis Children's Hospital located on site.
Progress West HealthCare Center was also the first hospital in the St. Louis area to use social media to alert patients to emergency room wait times.
Parkland Health Center-Bonne Terre is a critical care hospital that houses specialists in the areas of cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, neurology, Ob/Gyn, oncology, orthopedics, podiatry, pulmonary medicine, urology and vascular medicine. The hospital also contains an emergency room, oncology department and sleep apnea lab.
Parkland Health Center-Farmington is a 130-bed hospital with services for maternity and pediatrics, laboratory and radiology, cardiac rehabilitation, a cardiopulmonary department, surgical, physical therapy, diabetes clinic and renal dialysis clinic. The hospital also contains an emergency room and bariatric chamber for hyperbaric medicine.
In 2010 Parkland Health Center was ranked in America's Best 16 Community Hospitals by Becker's Hospital Review. It was the only facility in Missouri to be so honored.
Christian Hospital operates one of the busiest emergency departments in the state, as well as an EMS department that provides ALS ambulance service to north St. Louis County.
In 2009 the hospital rating group HealthGrades recognized Christian Hospital in their Hospital Quality in America Study as one of the nation's highest-quality health care organizations for clinical excellence in stroke care for three years in a row. Additionally, Christian Hospital has received an Excellence in Critical Care Award for 2010 as well as Five-Star recognition in a number of other clinical areas, such as heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, and valve replacement surgery survival.
Northwest is a completely filmless facility using the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), which enables health care providers at other facilities to look at radiology images at the time of service and for future reference.
, The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis is an 96-bed rehabilitation hospital. Founded in 2001, the Rehab Institute offers inpatient, outpatient and community rehabilitation services for survivors of stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputations, orthopedic conditions and cancer. The facility is also affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine.
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
. It is the St. Louis area's—and one of Missouri's—biggest employers. BJC includes two nationally recognized academic hospitals - Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, which are both affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine.
About
BJC HealthCare was created in 1993 when Barnes-Jewish Inc. merged with Christian Health Services to create a system consisting of a large urban teaching facility and a network of suburban community hospitals. In 1994 Missouri Baptist Medical Center and St. Louis Children's Hospital also joined BJC HealthCare.In addition to operating 13 hospitals in Missouri and Illinois, BJC HealthCare operates BJC Home Care Services, the oldest home care service west of the Mississippi, which offers hospice, home infusion, and medical equipment services; BJC Corporate Health Services, including BarnesCare, an occupational health organization; BJC Behavioral Health, offering behavioral health services to children and adults in the St. Louis metropolitan area and in the Missouri counties of Washington, Iron and St. Francois; and BJC Medical Group, which employs more than 200 primary and specialty physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
BJC HealthCare facilities consistently rank among the top hospitals in the country.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Barnes-Jewish HospitalBarnes-Jewish Hospital
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is the largest hospital in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the adult teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine, and is located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is consistently rated one of the top hospitals in the United States by U.S. News & World Report...
is the largest hospital in Missouri with 1,228 beds and is known as the flagship of BJC HealthCare. It is the adult teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine , located in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the graduate schools of Washington University in St. Louis. One of the top medical schools in the United States, it is currently ranked 4th for research according to U.S. News and World Report and has been listed...
and is one of three Level I trauma centers in St. Louis.
Barnes-Jewish was formed by the 1996 merger of two hospitals, Barnes Hospital and The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, which were built in proximity to each other on the eastern edge of Forest Park. Barnes Hospital opened on December 7, 1914 at its current location on Kingshighway Boulevard. It was established by the bequest of Robert A. Barnes upon his death in 1892. Jewish Hospital was created in 1902 on a different site on Delmar Boulevard by the leaders of the St. Louis Jewish community. It moved to its current location two blocks away from Barnes Hospital in 1927.
The current facility houses the Charles F. Knight
Charles F. Knight
Charles F. Knight is chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Co., a manufacturer of electrical, electromechanical and electronic products and systems. He served as chairman of Emerson Electric from 1974 to 2004 and as chief executive officer from 1973 to 2000. He also served as president from 1986 to...
Emergency and Trauma Center, which is a 52,000-square-foot, 61-bed Level I trauma center that includes two full-body CT scanners and six trauma/critical care rooms. A helipad with private elevator access is also located on the roof.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital also contains within the Center for Advanced Medicine The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, which is a partnership between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine , located in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the graduate schools of Washington University in St. Louis. One of the top medical schools in the United States, it is currently ranked 4th for research according to U.S. News and World Report and has been listed...
. The Siteman Cancer Center is the only cancer center in Missouri which holds Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital has earned a place on U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s best hospitals for the past 18 years and is home to 15 specialties ranked among the best nationally. In 2010, it was ranked 8th in the country by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
.
Boone Hospital Center
Built in 1921 in Columbia, Missouri, Boone Hospital CenterBoone Hospital Center
Boone Hospital Center is a county-owned not-for-profit hospital in Columbia, Missouri. The hospital is administered by BJC HealthCare, based out of St. Louis, Missouri. The hospital is a regional referral center, providing services to twenty-five Mid-Missouri counties...
is a 394-bed hospital owned by Boone Country and administered by BJC HealthCare. The facility is a Level II trauma center as well as a regional referral center excelling in heart services, neurology, obstetrics and cancer services.
Boone Hospital operates four ambulances in Boone County. They are located at bases in Centralia, the northeast side of Columbia, and on the Boone Hospital grounds. They, along with the University Hospital ambulance service, provide emergency care for the entire county.
In 2005, the hospital became the first Mid-Missouri facility to receive the Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and it also was honored as one of the nation’s top 100 hospitals by Thomson Reuters in 2010.
Alton Memorial Hospital
Alton Memorial Hospital is a 206-bed hospital located in Alton, Illinois, serving the River Bend area of southwestern Illinois. 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. The hospital also operates a 24-hour emergency center and the region's only hospital-based ALS ambulance service.Alton Memorial Hospital recently opened a new 76-bed patient care tower. The Duncan Wing houses the hospital's Surgical Care Unit (12 beds), Intermediate Care Unit (32 beds) and Medical Care Unit (32 beds). Six observation rooms also are available on the ground floor.
Alton Memorial Hospital was also a recipient of a 2009-2010 Hospital Value Index: Best in Value Award by a Data Advantage LLC study.
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital (BJSPH) is a 111-bed facility in St. Peters that serves St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren counties. The hospital has a 15-bed emergency department, as well numerous other patient services, including cardiac surgery and pulmonary services. In 2004, the hospital completed an $18.5 million expansion which included new Cardiology and Women's centers, in addition to the Outpatient Surgery and Endoscopy Center. 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 Siteman Cancer Center, which is a partnership between BJSPH and the Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine , located in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the graduate schools of Washington University in St. Louis. One of the top medical schools in the United States, it is currently ranked 4th for research according to U.S. News and World Report and has been listed...
.
The hospital received a 2009 HealthGrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award for being in the Top 10 percent in the nation for patient satisfaction.
Clay County Hospital
Clay County Hospital is a 22-bed hospital located in Flora, Illinois. The new hospital was built in 2000 and has a Level III trauma center, as well as a 20-bed medical/surgical unit. The facility also operates a fleet of three ambulances, two ALS and one intermediate, to serve Clay County, Illinois. BJC manages the hospital, which is owned by Clay County.Barnes-Jewish West County
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital is a 108-bed hospital in St. Louis County, Missouri. The hospital recently underwent an $11.2 million renovation that included adding a new emergency department, updating operating rooms and renovating each patient room and public space. The campus consists of Washington University School of Medicine and private practice physicians. Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital is a member of BJC HealthCare and employs nearly 500 health care professionals.St. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis Children's HospitalSt. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis Children's Hospital is an academic pediatric hospital providing tertiary level care in St. Louis, Missouri. SLCH is the pediatric teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine. It is the seventh oldest children's hospital in the United States and the first children's...
is a 250-bed pediatric hospital that provides services to the St. Louis metropolitan area and a primary service region covering six states. The facility is the pediatric teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine , located in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the graduate schools of Washington University in St. Louis. One of the top medical schools in the United States, it is currently ranked 4th for research according to U.S. News and World Report and has been listed...
. Founded in 1879, SLCH is the oldest pediatric hospital west of the Mississippi River and the 7th oldest in the United States.
St. Louis Children's Hospital is a world-renowned hospital that offers every possible pediatric specialty and sees more than 275,000 patients each year. The facility has performed more pediatric lung transplants than any other institution in the world, was the first hospital to administer insulin to a pediatric patient in the United States, and performed the first split-liver transplant on a child. 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.
In 2009, Parents magazine ranked St. Louis Children's Hospital #5 on its list of the 10 Best Children's Hospitals in the country. Also in 2010, the hospital was named by U.S. News & World Report to its Honor Roll of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals, as it has been for the past eight years.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Missouri Baptist Medical Center is a 489-bed hospital located at Interstate-270 and Highway 40/I-64 in West St. Louis County. Missouri Baptist Medical Center was founded in 1886 and joined BJC HealthCare in 1994. The hospital offers a wide spectrum of medical and surgical services, specializing in obstetrics, heart services, cancer services and orthopedics.In addition to a 20-bed emergency room for adults, MBMC has a full-size emergency room just for kids, with nine beds plus six more for longer term, in-patient care. The ER is staffed with nurses and physicians who specialize in pediatric medicine.
In 2010 Thomson Reuters named Missouri Baptist Medical Center a "Top 100" hospital for the second year in a row.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center has also received high marks by HealthGrades
HealthGrades
HealthGrades Inc. is a U.S. company that develops and markets quality and safety ratings of health care providers, including hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and dentists. Quality ratings are devised from publicly available patient safety data and analyzed with proprietary technology developed...
, a health care rating organization. In 2010, the hospital was rated #1 for overall Cardiac Services in Missouri, as well as receiving the Cardiac Care Excellence Award and Coronary Intervention Excellence Award for 2009 and 2010.
Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital
Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital is a 75-bed facility located in Sullivan, Missouri, that serves the citizens of Crawford, Franklin and Washington counties. The facility serves almost 22,000 patients yearly and offers pulmonary, cancer, cardiac, behavioral, OB/Gyn, and rehabilitative care.Progress West HealthCare Center
The newest hospital in BJC HealthCare, Progress West HealthCare Center is a 72-bed facility located in southern St. Charles County. The hospital opened in 2007 and has many technological advances, including the Patient Touch Technology (PTT) system, online express registration and Vocera communication system.Progress West offers a wide array of cardiac, surgical, birthing, and orthopedic services, along with an emergency department and six Intensive Care Units (ICU). PWHC also has a branch of St. Louis Children's Hospital located on site.
Progress West HealthCare Center was also the first hospital in the St. Louis area to use social media to alert patients to emergency room wait times.
Parkland Health Center
Parkland Health Center comprises two former independent community hospitals, Farmington Community Hospital and Bonne Terre Hospital, both located in St. Francois County. The facilities merged in 1991.Parkland Health Center-Bonne Terre is a critical care hospital that houses specialists in the areas of cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, neurology, Ob/Gyn, oncology, orthopedics, podiatry, pulmonary medicine, urology and vascular medicine. The hospital also contains an emergency room, oncology department and sleep apnea lab.
Parkland Health Center-Farmington is a 130-bed hospital with services for maternity and pediatrics, laboratory and radiology, cardiac rehabilitation, a cardiopulmonary department, surgical, physical therapy, diabetes clinic and renal dialysis clinic. The hospital also contains an emergency room and bariatric chamber for hyperbaric medicine.
In 2010 Parkland Health Center was ranked in America's Best 16 Community Hospitals by Becker's Hospital Review. It was the only facility in Missouri to be so honored.
Christian Hospital
Christian Hospital is a non-profit 485-bed hospital located at the interchange of Interstate 270 and Highway 367 in north St. Louis County, Missouri. Founded in 1903, Christian Hospital is one of the founding members of BJC HealthCare and specializes in heart surgery, cancer services, neurosurgery, women's services and mental health services.Christian Hospital operates one of the busiest emergency departments in the state, as well as an EMS department that provides ALS ambulance service to north St. Louis County.
In 2009 the hospital rating group HealthGrades recognized Christian Hospital in their Hospital Quality in America Study as one of the nation's highest-quality health care organizations for clinical excellence in stroke care for three years in a row. Additionally, Christian Hospital has received an Excellence in Critical Care Award for 2010 as well as Five-Star recognition in a number of other clinical areas, such as heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, and valve replacement surgery survival.
Northwest HealthCare
Northwest HealthCare is an outpatient subsidiary of Christian Hospital located in Florissant, Missouri. Services include: emergency department, sleep lab, bone density testing, mammography, ultrasound and MRI. Construction is currently underway to add a two-story addition to the facility. When completed, the new building will add additional office space for several BJC Medical Group practices, as well as 13 new emergency department rooms.Northwest is a completely filmless facility using the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), which enables health care providers at other facilities to look at radiology images at the time of service and for future reference.
The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis
A joint venture between BJC HealthCare and HealthSouthHealthSouth
HealthSouth Corporation , based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation’s largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitative hospitals. Operating in 26 states across the country and in Puerto Rico, HealthSouth serves patients through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals , outpatient...
, The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis is an 96-bed rehabilitation hospital. Founded in 2001, the Rehab Institute offers inpatient, outpatient and community rehabilitation services for survivors of stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputations, orthopedic conditions and cancer. The facility is also affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine.
External links
- BJC HealthCare
- Alton Memorial Hospital
- Boone Hospital Center
- Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
- St. Louis Children's Hospital
- Progress West HealthCare Center
- Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
- Christian Hospital
- Clay County Hospital
- Missouri Baptist Medical Center
- Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital
- Northwest HealthCare
- Parkland Health Center
- Siteman Cancer Center
- The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis
- BJC Social Media Guide