Tag: "Post-Dispatch"

Barnes-Jewish among many to face Medicare penalties

bjh_blog | August 18, 2012 | Comments (0)

An article in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlights new Medicare penalties many hospitals across the nation will face starting this October. The story is an important one. As you may know, the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program under the Affordable Care Act will penalize hospitals with excessive readmissions for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and [...]

Siteman Breast Cancer Survivor Featured in Today’s Komen/Post-Dispatch Section

bjh_blog | June 21, 2012 | Comments (0)

The annual Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure is Saturday and we look forward to seeing around 3,500 people in our blue Siteman Cancer Center/NewsChannel 5/St. Louis Rams Team Georgia shirts on race day. To get people ready for the race, today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a fantastic section with dozens of breast cancer [...]

Lace Up Your Shoes for This Weekend's Metro St. Louis Heart Walk

bjh_blog | May 18, 2012 | Comments (0)

It’s expected tomorrow morning’s Metro St. Louis Heart Walk at Busch Stadium will raise $1.3 million in the fight against heart disease. One unique person who will be walking is 30-year-old Michael Dixon of St. Peters. After battling the heart infection myocarditis, Dixon was implanted with a ventricular assist device to keep his failing heart beating. The [...]

New proton facility featured in today's Post-Dispatch

bjh_blog | November 8, 2011 | Comments (0)

We’ve updated you a bit on progress over the past couple of weeks on our new Kling Center for Proton Therapy. The world’s first superconducting synchocyclotron arrived from Mevion Medical Systems in Massachusetts on October 30 and a team from Mevion and Ben Hur Construction have been working daily to get things in place since [...]

New "Stay Healthy Clinic" Designed to Reduce Readmissions

bjh_blog | October 17, 2011 | Comments (0)

Last Thursday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Blythe Bernhard wrote a great piece about a program at Barnes-Jewish designed to reduce the number of patients readmitted to the hospital — our Stay Healthy Clinic. The program grew from a study we did last year called a “Transition of Care” program where a nurse would follow up with a [...]

Barnes-Jewish Family Loses One Of Their Own: Sally Hermann

bjh_blog | July 18, 2011 | Comments (0)

The Barnes-Jewish family lost one of their own last week. Sally Hermann, who helped create a center for cancer patients to get not only information, but support, passed away last week at age 84. One of the landmarks on our medical center campus, thanks to Hermann, is the Barnard Health and Cancer Information Center. It’s [...]

Ventricular Assist Device Keeps Tom Nichols' Heart Pumping

bjh_blog | April 28, 2011 | Comments (0)

The Post-Dispatch’s Harry Jackson has a profile on one of our heart and vascular program’s more well known patients around campus, 59 year-old Tom Nichols. Tom’s heart gave in to heart failure in 2007 and a machine called a ventricular assist device (VAD) was implanted in his abdomen to keep his ailing heart pumping. It’s [...]

Can Cooling The Body Help Cardiac Arrest Patients Recover?

bjh_blog | April 21, 2011 | Comments (0)

Ice may be good in treating sprained ankles, but could it help treat cardiac arrest? A story by Cindy Billhartz in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch examines the treatment of cardiac arrest patients by cooling them in a process called therapeutic hypothermia. Now, therapeutic hypothermia can be performed using various methods, including cooling blankets and ice packs. However, [...]

Siteman's Illumination gala, Kristin Chenoweth in the news

bjh_blog | February 28, 2011 | Comments (0)

Last week we announced that Kristin Chenoweth would be headlining the Siteman Cancer Center’s Illumination gala. This week, Deb Peterson of the Post-Dispatch wrote up a nice piece in her column highlighting the event. The gala is fast approaching, so if you’re thinking of attending or a sponsorship, please contact Kristin Marino at your earliest [...]

Update on Heart Transplant Patient Megan Moss

bjh_blog | February 17, 2011 | Comments (0)

Reporter Harry Jackson has a feature in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch with an update on a patient you may be familiar with, heart transplant patient Megan Moss. You can read the story here. Harry’s story talks about how Megan was slowed by congestive heart failure and over time needed the help of an assist device to [...]

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