News Release Archive

Thanks to the extraordinary care provided, the Center recently received two honors.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital vice president and chief operating officer Angelleen Peters-Lewis received the prestigious award for her leadership and commitment to patients, staff and the community.

Voting is now open for the U.S. News Best Hospital Survey. We appreciate your support in continuing as a national leader in heart and vascular care.

Among the top 10 in procedural volume in the U.S., the VAD program at the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart and Vascular Center celebrates 25 years of innovation.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital has once again achieved the highest acknowledgment of nursing excellence — Magnet® recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

Just a few hundred years ago, the heart and its function were a bit of a mystery.

On Oct. 1, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, was named the Shoenberg Professor of Surgery and chief of cardiac surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Why should cardiologists refer patients to an advanced heart failure specialist?

Unique story attracts national media attention.

ST. LOUIS – July 26, 2022 – Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine have been named one of America’s “Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report. Barnes-Jewish ranked No. 11 in the nation, moving up six spots from its previous position on the publication’s elite honor roll of the country’s top 20 hospitals. The report also ranked Barnes-Jewish as No. 1 in Missouri and No. 1 in the metro St. Louis area.