Saint Louis University Hospital

at 3635 Vista Ave, St. Louis , 63110 United States

1. Hospital
2. Local Business

Description

Saint Louis University Hospital is a hospital in St. Louis. From 1998 to 2015, this hospital was owned by the for-profit Tenet Healthcare Corporation. In June, 2015, the university announced that it would reacquire the hospital and transfer it to the non-profit Catholic hospital system SSM Health Care in the third quarter of 2015. It serves as the main teaching hospital for the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. It has been recognized by US News & World Report magazine as one of the "Top 10 geriatric Hospitals" in the United States.This academic teaching hospital has 356 beds and has been serving the medical and health care needs of the St. Louis area for more than 70 years. It is also a regional leader in providing tertiary-quaternary health care and has an organ transplant program. The hospital is also a certified Level I Trauma Center in both Missouri and Illinois. Other specialties include geriatrics, orthopedics, rheumatology, urology, heart care and digestive diseases. It is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. It even has an organ transplant program that offers lung, kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver, bone,and cornea transplant.HistoryMuch of the current building was constructed in 1986 as an addition to Firmin Desloge Hospital, which opened in 1933 as a partnership between the Jesuits of Saint Louis University and the Sisters of Saint Mary and named for the benefactor, Firmin V. Desloge.

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Summary

Saint Louis University Hospital is St. Louis based place and this enity listed in Hospital category. Located at 3635 Vista Ave MO 63110. Contact phone number of Saint Louis University Hospital: (314) 577-8000