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.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital was one of the first hospitals in the country to offer patients the opportunity to have brain surgery using technology that reduced the need for follow-up surgery. Its neurosurgery team has reached a milestone by performing more than 1,000 cases using its moveable intraoperative MRI (iMRI) system – more than any other center in the United States.