St. Luke’s Hospital
Open Spaces: St. Luke’s Open Upright MRI of Missouri facility allows patients to rest comfortably while watching TV midscan.
Shriners Hospitals for Children
Back on the Block: Ninety years after opening in St. Louis, Shriners will return to its original Central West End location, with more room for research and collaboration, as well as hotel-like rooms for patients’ relatives.
SSM DePaul HealthCenter
Color Scanner: The new Philips Ingenia 3.0T MRI scanner is faster, stronger, and more…colorful? The machine features light and animation displays that help patients relax.
Washington University School of Medicine
Not Immune to Change: Scientists working for the new Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs will research new ways to use the immune system to fight infections and cancers. The center is part of BioMed21, an initiative to catalyze medical discovery into improvements to patient care.
Take Me to Your LED-er: A new diffuse optical tomography brain scanner looks like a prop in a sci-fi flick. Its LED-laden helmet can capture brain processes in multiple areas, including those used for language processing and daydreaming.
Christian Hospital
Consolidation station: This year, Christian Hospital is set to break ground on its new Hybrid Room, a space devoted to multidisciplinary care, bringing technology and clinicians from the operating room and cardiac cath lab into one place.
Alton Memorial Hospital
Need Care Now: In March, the hospital opened an Alton Memorial Convenient Care clinic in Godfrey, Ill., focusing on muscle pain, infections, and other common ailments.
Saint Louis University Hospital
Stretching Science: For patients with traumatically injured legs, orthopedic surgeons at Saint Louis University Hospital now offer an implanted magnetic leg-lengthening device, operated by remote control.
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Turning Twenty: For its 20th anniversary, SLU’s Health Resource Center gave itself a shiny new facility, with twice the room as the original.
Under Pressure: SLUCare recently opened a High Blood Pressure Clinic, offering measurements of cardiovascular and arterial health, medication review, and assessments of lifestyle risk.
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center
Yellow Submarine: The Bob Costas Cancer Center, unveiled in June, has an imaginative new look, inspired by an underwater world.
Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
Seeing Clearly: Siteman surgeons can now see cancer more clearly with high-tech surgery goggles and a special light that make cancer cells glow, helping surgeons remove the cells.
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Million Dollar Baby: After a $1 million makeover, St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s Hematology-Oncology Clinic allows patients to receive exams, infusions, and other specialized treatment in one place.
SSM St. Mary’s Health Center
No Joke: Comedian Cedric the Entertainer helped raise money to build a women’s-health pavilion named after his mother, Rosetta Boyce Kyles, who has been a cancer patient at St. Mary’s.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
A Hospital Within A Hospital: Select Medical is hoping to add 38 long-term acute care beds—reserved for patients who have a hospital stay longer than 30 days—on MoBap’s fifth floor.
Mercy
Virtual Reality: This year, Mercy broke ground on the nation’s first Virtual Health Care Center. Nearly 300 physicians, nurses, and specialty staff will deliver 24/7 care to patients through audio, video, and data connections.
Striking out Cancer: Mercy’s Cardinals Kids Cancer Center for adolescent and young adult patients has expanded, with healing rooms and rehab-activity spaces.
