Hospitals

Hospitals don’t include mental health patients in federal standardized surveys of adults after they’re discharged. Washington University professor Morgan Shields and her colleagues teamed up with mental health advocates to fight for hospitals to survey those who receive behavioral health care.

Flu and other respiratory illnesses are on the rise in St. Louis. The increase in patients is coming as more health care employees leave their jobs, putting more strain on the remaining workforce.

The Department of Mental Health has continued to grapple with steep vacancies among staff, causing access to care across its state-run mental health facilities to decline as wings are shut down.

The Missouri legislature has voted to allow nursing home residents and hospital patients to have two designated caregivers who can provide physical and mental support for the patient.

A little more than 200 temporary medical staff ended up being sent to hospitals, while monoclonal antibody treatments averaged more than $5,600 per patient.

Gov. Pritzker said the state is bolstering its health care workforce by deploying more workers and allowing out-of-state health care providers to continue practicing in Illinois with expanded permissions to care for all patients.

Nearly 85% of all coronavirus-related hospitalizations across the state are unvaccinated individuals.

In the past week, the region’s four largest hospital systems have admitted about 40 new patients a day, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force. That’s down from a high of around 80 people a day in August.

Making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for workers at St. Louis hospitals has not sparked a mass exodus. Hospital officials in St. Louis say the vast majority of their employees have gotten the vaccine by the fall deadlines administrators set earlier this summer.

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.