At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, you’ll find an environment like no other. Ours is a culture of excellence that promotes continuous learning, total collaboration, growth and innovation. Our mission is to take exceptional care of people by delivering world-class healthcare in a compassionate, respectful and responsive way.  In so doing, we will offer you endless opportunities for career growth and development.  Every day, you’ll find new opportunities to challenge yourself and to take your skills and knowledge to a higher level.

Ranked among the Top 10 America’s Best Hospitals 2009-2010
The first adult hospital in St. Louis to achieve Magnet status for nursing excellence.
The designated teaching hospital of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Leader in innovation

The vision at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, along with our academic partner Washington University School of Medicine, is to be the best academic medical center in the country. Realizing this vision requires we push the limits of innovation:

• The Kling Center for Proton Therapy at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine will allow doctors to use protons to target tumors with greater precision. Delivery of this system will begin in the fall of 2009.

• Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) debuted at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2008. This is the world’s most advanced imaging technology, enabling neurosurgeons to perform important MRI tests while surgery is in progress.

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine are among 15 sites in the United States participating in the nationwide PARTNER (Placement of Aortic Transcatheter valves) trial. This procedure enables surgeons to replace the heart’s aortic valve via needle-puncture of the skin rather than requiring a more invasive surgery.

Community service

Whether it’s offering mentorship programs for transplant patients, teaching teens how to be good parents or providing medical care free of charge, Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s outreach and charity care have a profound impact on the communities we serve. In 2008, we dispensed 30,000 free flu vaccinations, facilitated 157 educational programs and provided over $23 million in charity care.

In addition, we encourage and foster an environment where our employees get directly involved in the community. From mentoring high school students to offering free medical screenings in homeless shelters, our employees take pride in taking their skills to those who need it most.

We invest in you

There’s almost no limit to your career when you join Barnes-Jewish Hospital. We want you to succeed. We want you to improve your skills and develop new ones. That’s why we invest in you, in your development, in your skills as a leader. Through our Center for Lifelong Learning, we sustain a culture of excellence in continuous learning by providing development opportunities for all BJH employees. We offer online and classroom programs for clinical and non-clinical skills development.

Management staff has the opportunity to improve their skills as leaders through a variety of classes including: coaching/mentoring, Lean, diversity, conflict management, change management, proactive employee relations, and more! Continuous improvement, innovation and developing exceptional people are all priorities at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

In addition, we offer a variety of generous tuition assistance options to all levels of employees for approved coursework and degrees.

Open communication

Barnes-Jewish Hospital is committed to strengthening the engagement of our employees by creating a positive work environment that fosters open communications and productive relationships between our people and our leaders. We want to know what you think we can do to improve your work area, your department and our hospital, and what we can do to better ensure your success.

We conduct employee surveys, staff meetings, leadership meetings to help ensure we offer you the opportunity to communicate directly with department and hospital leaders.

The dedication of our 9,500 employees is the key to our success. Establishing friendships, building a special team bond, creating innovative solutions – great things are happening at Barnes-Jewish Hospital everyday. Discover a work culture that’s truly inspiring. We’re a large hospital, but in so many ways we’re a small community – with one common mission: to take exceptional care of people.