In the News Archive

What is believed to be the largest multi-center domino kidney transplant in the US was completed Monday when surgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital removed a kidney from a southern Illinois woman and transported it to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to be transplanted into a waiting recipient.

A passion for music and its healing powers inspires a unique gift to Goldfarb School of Nursing.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation has established funds to support clinical research, education, and patient care that leads to cancer breakthroughs and better outcomes at Barnes-Jewish.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Express Scripts Foundation, and St. Louis College of Pharmacy partner on a summer program that prepares multicultural high school students to enroll in and succeed in pharmacy schools.

Actress Christina Applegate helps the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation raise $1.44 million at the illumination09 gala to launch the Cancer Frontier Fund, a $50 million fundraising initiative to accelerate the pace of cancer breakthroughs at the Siteman Cancer Center.

The Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation endowed chair program helps top Washington University researchers to transform health care.

The son and daughter of Virginia Murley make a tribute gift in her memory to honor the Barnes-Jewish nurses that gave her compassionate care.

Many donors make tribute gifts to funds that enable us to help the most vulnerable in our community—the uninsured, the underinsured and the unemployed—to focus on treatment and healing instead of worrying about financial burdens during a hospital stay, extended treatment and recovery.   

Tribute gifts help BJC Hospice to offer compassionate, holistic end-of-life care to patients and their families.

Through their tribute gift in honor of Dr. Michael Kass, Joyce and Dr. Michael Day remember Joyce's mother, Marjorie Day, and help the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation support glaucoma research in St. Louis that will change lives well beyond our region.