Ratings and Rankings - Health Care
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The St. Louis region offers some of the best and most accessible health care from more than 50 general practice, teaching and research hospitals. Not only is St. Louis recognized as the most affordable city for children's health insurance, St. Louis is home to some of the best overall hospitals in the nation. See how health care in Greater St. Louis has recently ranked: Best Hospital Overall - St. Luke’s Hospital has been named a Top 100 hospital five times by Solucient, an information provider to the health care industry. St. Luke’s consistent excellence led to its being named one of 77 benchmark hospitals in the nation.
Highest Quality - Barnes-Jewish Hospital was named as a 2006/07 Consumer Choice Award winner for having the highest quality and image out of 186 U.S. hospitals in its respective Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- In 2002, St. Louis-based SSM Healthcare, which operates one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the country, became the first health care organization in the country to be named a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner.
- In 2004, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital became the first pediatric hospital to receive the Missouri Quality Award, which was established in 1992. The Excellence in Missouri Foundation uses Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria to recognize excellence in areas such as customer service and satisfaction, leadership, and organizational performance.
Best Fertility Center Investment - Both Illinois and Missouri ranked within the top 5 among states in BioEnterprise's Midwest region for 2006 health-care startup investment. Illinois ranked No. 1 with combined investments of $101.6 million in the first half of 2006. Missouri ranked No. 4 with $37.2 million in the first half of 2006.
- During the last seven years, St. Louis has enjoyed a higher venture capital funding per life science worker than most competing life-sciences regions, according to the Council on Competitiveness.
Most Affordable Health Insurance - St. Louis is the most affordable city in the country for children's health insurance and the 9th-most affordable city in the country for families’ health insurance, according to a 2006 study by eHealthInsurance.com.
- St. Louis has the second-lowest cost in the nation for private nursing-home rooms, according to Genworth Financial of Richmond, VA in 2005.
Special Designation - Barnes-Jewish Hospital was named among the 100 Top Hospitals for cardiovascular services on the 2006 Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study in Modern Healthcare magazine. It was one of 30 U.S. hospitals recognized as a teaching hospital with a cardiovascular residency program.
- Missouri Baptist Medical Center and the Center for Cancer Care and Research is one of just 62 community programs nationwide to be granted Community Clinical Oncology Program designation by the National Cancer Institute.
Most Improved Most Wired - Sisters of Mercy Health System is among the 100 most wired hospitals in the country, according to a July 2006 list in Hospitals & Health Networks.
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