News Release Archive

Richard J. Liekweg has been named group president of BJC HealthCare and president of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital, effective September 14.

News that drivers are 23 times more likely to have an accident while texting is no surprise to trauma physicians and nurses at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

The cardiology team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital celebrated another recognition, days after U.S. News & World Report ranked “Heart and Heart Services” at Barnes-Jewish #12 nationally and the hospital #9 overall.

More than 350 physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been named to The Best Doctors In America for 2009.

Along with a nursing shortage, the United States is also suffering a shortage of pharmacists.

For the 17^th consecutive year, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine, is the only St. Louis area hospital or medical institution listed among America’s elite medical centers in the U.S.News & World Report “America’s Best Hospitals” issue.

Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game not only brought baseball’s best to St. Louis, it brought some of the nation’s leaders in cancer awareness to the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine

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.