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Missouri Baptist Medical Center, known locally as MoBap, is a hospital in Town and Country, Missouri.Its origins were in 1884 when Dr. William H. Mayfield opened his home to patients.
Barnes-Jewish is the largest private employer in Greater St. Louis, employing 10,125 people in 2018, including 1,723 attending physicians. It is responsible for the education of 1,129 interns, residents, and fellows. As of 2018, the hospital had 1,266 beds with a staff of 12,125. [3]
BJC HealthCare was created in 1993 when Barnes–Jewish Inc. merged with Christian Health Services. [3] [4] In 1994, Missouri Baptist Medical Center and St. Louis Children's Hospital joined BJC HealthCare. [4]
Deaconess Hospital was the name of several hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri. The Deaconess tradition began in 19th-century Europe when Theodor Fliedner of Kaiserswerth, Germany, established the first Deaconess Home and Hospital in 1836. The word deaconess means “one who is devoted to service”, being the feminine gender of the word deacon. [1]
St. Louis was incorporated as a city on December 9, 1822, four months after Missouri was admitted as a state to the Union. In accordance with its new charter, the city changed its governance to a mayor-council format and elected its first mayor, William Carr Lane, on April 7, 1823.
St. Vincent's Hospital was a Catholic hospital in Normandy, Missouri. In 1858, the Sisters of Charity founded St. Vincent's Sanitarium for those with nervous and mental diseases . [ 2 ] The hospital was located on St. Vincent's Lane north of St. Charles Rock Road; it is the current home of the Castle Park Apartments.
This is a list of hospitals in St. Louis, including those in St. Louis County, sorted by name. A list of hospitals in Missouri is also available.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the only public hospital for African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri from 1937 until 1955, when the city began to desegregate. It continued to operate after the desegregation of city hospitals, and continued to serve the Black community of St. Louis until its closure in 1979.