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The suit claims SSM and the company that owned buildings on the campus of DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton didn’t protect visitors from sexual abuse by an area pediatrician.

The St. Louis facility will offer a place for those in a mental health crisis to drop in and be seen by a professional the same day.

Investigators at St. Louis University and SSM Health hope to recruit people to add their health information to a huge national database that aims to diversify medical research.

The chief community health officer at SSM Health hopes that a joint effort of local hospital systems will result in improved health outcomes in St. Louis.

Dr. Alexander Garza said the best way to prepare for a future pandemic is to improve social resources, such as food access, education and transportation.

Union nurses at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital walked off the job at 7 a.m. Wednesday. They plan to picket through Friday morning. The 48-hour strike marks the second action the union has called in four months.

Amazon employees, nurses and workers rights advocates gathered to call out working conditions they say don’t help employees stay healthy.

Cardinal Glennon and SSM Health announced plans to build a 14-story hospital on Grand Boulevard. The planned hospital will be built two blocks north of the hospital’s current 195-bed facility, which opened in 1956.

Dozens of nurses on Monday formed a picket line outside SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital on South Grand Boulevard to call for better staffing, guaranteed breaks and more comprehensive sick leave policies.

A growing number of people are testing positive for the coronavirus, but Missouri scientists say the virus still poses a smaller threat to residents than during the height of the pandemic.