BJC Healthcare

Students from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University donated their supplies of personal protective equipment.

Personal Protective Equipment Shortages Could Happen In St. Louis Region: Here’s How You Can Donate

The surge in demand for personal protective equipment during the coronavirus outbreak has caused shortages nationwide.To make up for a manufacturing lag,…

Nurses greet a patient in their car to be tested for the COVID-19 at the Mercy Virtual Care Center in Chesterfield on Saturday morning. Missouri has four known cases of the new coronavirus virus as of Friday evening. 3/14/20

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Health Care Workers Implore Government For Masks To Protect Against Coronavirus

Sarah Fentem

Updated at 7 p.m., March 26, with details on SLU Hospital's guidance to employees on protective masksAs hospitals prepare to treat people who become very…

Hospice patient Dorothy Matejka enjoys a music therapy session with her daughter Nancy Daake and music therapists Alison Cole and Kathryn Coccia, seen here with her guitar.

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'Heart-Wrenching Joy': Music Therapist Sets Hospice Patients' Heartbeats To Song

Nancy Fowler

Some of Dorothy Matejka’s favorite days are when she gets to enjoy music therapy in her south St. Louis apartment. She never tires of songs like “On the…

Medical workers at Mercy Health's drive-through novel coronavirus test collection site are gathering samples from patients daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (March 16, 2020)

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St. Louis Hospitals Likely Won't Have Enough Room To Treat Every Coronavirus Patient

Sarah Fentem

St. Louis doctors are worried that the region’s hospitals don’t have enough beds to treat the expected surge in patients with COVID-19, the disease caused…

A scanning electron microscope image shows the novel coronavirus (yellow) against human cells (pink.) 2-27-20

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Missouri Health Officials, Hospitals Prepare For Coronavirus Patients

Sarah Fentem

Missouri health officials are taking steps to protect people against the potential spread of the new coronavirus that has sickened thousands in…

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Some St. Louis Hospitals Bar Doctors From Certifying Medical Marijuana Patients

Sarah Fentem

Medical marijuana is legal in Missouri, but some of the region’s largest hospital systems aren’t allowing their physicians to certify patients to use it.…

Siteman Cancer Center breaks ground for new facility in Florissant

Economy & Business

North St. Louis County welcomes new Siteman Cancer Center

Siteman Cancer Center broke ground Tuesday on its fifth outpatient site. The $26.3-million, 37,000-square-foot facility will be located on the Northwest…

BJC Healthcare is completing two new medical towers.

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New hospital towers will bring new mothers closer to critically ill infants, serve cancer patients

Chad Davis

Doctors at Washington University will soon be able to provide better treatment to infants in critical care and their mothers.The Barnes-Jewish Parkview…

Road map of Forest Park and the Central West End in St. Louis, MO.

Economy & Business

Forest Park Parkway closing Monday at BJC medical campus for construction project

Forest Park Parkway near Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the Central West End is closing until at least next summer starting Monday.The road, which runs below…

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BJC to close competing hospital it purchased last year in Farmington

Less than a year after purchasing the facility, BJC HealthCare is closing the doors of its former competitor in Farmington.The 126-bed hospital, which was…