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Supreme Court Decision on Affordable Care Act
The below message was sent to all BJC HealthCare employees today from President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Lipstein. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a member of BJC HealthCare. BJC Colleagues: Today, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as health care reform. BJC has long been [...]
Love our nurses? Tell BJC about it
At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, we love our nurses. The Rare Gift has an especially warm place in our heart for transplant nurses – from operating room nurses to the ICU and floor nurses to the transplant coordinators. This week is national Nurses Week and to honor nurses in the BJC HealthCare system, our sister website, MakeMedicineBetter.org, has a forum just [...]
Lean Principles Help Reduce Falls, Improve Patient Safety at Barnes-Jewish
About a week ago, I participated in a three-day Lean event focused on patient fall prevention. Prior to the event, BJC HealthCare’s Center for Clinical Excellence had identified the units within our 13-hospital system that had the highest number of falls and these included three oncology units at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Because of this, intervention teams [...]
Wanted: Your Breast Cancer Questions for Tomorrow's Wednesday Webinar
Does all the controversy about screening mammography confuse you? Do you wonder if a woman should still get a mammogram at age 40? Are there times someone should get a mammogram earlier than 40? Breast cancer screening is a topic with a lot of questions and we’re here to answer them for you. Tomorrow at [...]
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