Barnes-Jewish Hospital has been recognized as a “Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the country’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization.

The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of the nation’s leading nonprofit academic medical centers, has named Barnes-Jewish Hospital a recipient of the 2014 Rising Star Award. The award recognizes significant improvements in a hospital’s ranking in UHC’s annual Quality and Accountability Study, which identifies exemplary performance in patient safety, mortality, clinical effectiveness and equity of care.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital will begin renovating the emergency department waiting area. The project will provide an improved environment for our patients and will provide emergency department staff a more efficient process to triage patients. The project will enhance patient flow, improve navigation and provide a more comfortable space for our patients.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine are once again listed among the nation’s elite medical centers in U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of “Best Hospitals,” and are again ranked No. 1 in both the St. Louis metro area and Missouri.          

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best hospitals and heart and vascular centers, was recently honored with two prestigious awards: the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Foundation’s NDCR ACTION Registry®–Get With the Guidelines™ (GWTG) Platinum Performance Achievement Award and the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2014 Resuscitation Quality Achievement Award.