In the News Archive

Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's Hospitals have formed a partnership for safe maternal-fetal transport. It's the first transport service in the region that provides both obstetrical and newborn care.

The National Research Corporation has publicly recognized Barnes-Jewish Hospital as one of the 2012/2013 Consumer Choice Award winners.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s stroke program recently received the Get With The Guidelines–Stroke (GWTG–Stroke) Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award from the American Stroke Association/American Heart Association.

Washington University physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital were the first in the country to implant the Impella CP into a heart failure patient on Sept. 28, via a catheter, rather than an open procedure. About the size of a coffee stirrer, the new device is the world’s smallest heart pump, yet it can support the heart by pumping up to four liters of blood per minute.

New technology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital allows surgeons specializing in minimally invasive and bariatric procedures, access to improved visualization and the ability to stream live surgeries around the world to further medical education.

ACW Alliance has been named chief construction manager for the long-term project to renew the medical center campus on Kingshighway Boulevard, which encompasses Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

William C. Chapman, MD, FACS has been named as the Eugene M. Bricker Chair of Surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine.

Michael R. Bleich, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, has been named the next dean of the Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital has been selected to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a first-of-its-kind national effort to significantly improve breastfeeding rates in states where rates are currently the lowest.