Hospitals

 North Shore Medical - Miami                       MIAMI
          "Experience You Can Trust"

        
North Shore Medical Center

     1100 N.W. 95th Street
                  Miami, FL 33150                                           305-835-6000

       
  www.northshoremedical.com

North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) is a Tenet Health Group, 357-bed acute-care hospital located in beautiful Miami, Florida, conveniently located just minutes from the Miami-Dade and Broward County lines, and Interstate 95 (I-95). NSMC is staffed by more than 700 employees and over 350 affiliated physician-specialists. The hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).  The Endoscopic Transthoracic Sympathicotomy (ETS) program is just one of several specialized-care units at NSMC. With a high standard of care, excellence in nursing, a personal approach and dedicated staff, NSMC strives to be the hospital of choice for patients from all over the United States, as well as from the Caribbean, Latin America, and other countries. The hospital is fully suited with state-of-the-art equipment and the latest in technological and clinical advancement.


 St. Alexius Medical Center - Chicago                     CHICAGO

              St. Alexis Medical Center

                 1555 Barrington Road
                    Hoffman Estates, IL

                      
847-843-2000
     
www.alexianbrothershealth.org

St. Alexius Medical Center is a 331-bed community hospital located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago with convenient access to    I-90.  As part of Alexian Brothers Health System, a diversified Catholic health-care system sponsored by the Immaculate Conception (American) Province of the Congregation of Alexian Brothers, the care reflects the values of the Alexian Brothers. The system provides acute care, elderly services and a variety of community-based health-care programs through facilities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and Tennessee.

St. Alexius Medical Center carries out the healing mission of the Catholic Church as an Alexian Brothers Ministry by identifying and developing effective responses to the health needs of those we are called to serve. A wide-spectrum of services includes a Level II Trauma center. Emergikids provides emergency care for patients 18 years of age and under by physicians trained in pediatric emergency medicine from noon to midnight.

In addition to inpatient surgery, many outpatient procedures are performed at St. Alexius Medical Center through Day Surgery. There is a dedicated Endoscopy Center as well as a Procedure Clinic for procedures for pain management, blood transfusions, chemotherapy, antibiotic therapy, and Laser procedures.

The Alexian Pediatrics Institute and Pediatric ICU provide continuing care to patients that must be admitted. Other Centers of Excellence include the Alexian Orthopedics Institute, the Cancer Institute and cardiology. Additionally, St. Alexius provides maternity services with a Level II Plus Neonatal Nursery. Diagnostic services include the Breast Care Center, light-speed CT, MRI, as well as other radiologic and laboratory testing. Both Interventional and diagnostic cardiac catheterization are performed at the Medical Center.

St. Alexius has admitted more than 17,000 patients in 2007 and seen more than 50,000 patients in the Emergency Department. More than $25 million in charity care was provided during 2007.


 St. Joseph Health Center - St. Louis         
                    ST. LOUIS
          "Recognized for Excellent,
      Compassionate, Award-Winning
     and World-Class Health Services"


        SSM St. Joseph Health Center

     300 First Capitol Drive
          
St. Charles, MO
                   
(636) 947-5000

          

SSM St. Joseph Health Center is located in historic, downtown St. Charles, Missouri and has been serving the needs of the community since 1885. St. Joseph has grown structurally and technologically to meet the needs of a growing community. SSM St. Joseph Health Center provides comprehensive, world-class services to the region. The high-quality, faith-based healthcare ministry is enriched by dedicated and experienced physicians, professional staff and employees in every area. They excel in many areas of healthcare from emergency medicine to cardiovascular diseases. St. Joseph continues to introduce new services and specialists to provide all the care that is needed. Today, the 352-bed acute care hospital offers many specialty services in their “Centers of Excellence.”

              These services include:

Open-heart surgery   Oncology
Cardiac catheterization   Vascular surgery
Electrophysiology   Orthopedics
EEG/EMG testing   Gastroenterology
Trauma/emergency services   Pulmonary function testing
Imaging   Behavioral medicine and acute
Obstetrics   Inpatient rehabilitation
Surgical services   Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
         

Additionally, St. Joseph houses a state-designated Level II Trauma Center, the SSM Heart Institute and accredited Sleep Disorders Center, Vascular Institute and Vascular Lab and the Harmon Institute for Heart & Lung Rehabilitation.

SSM St. Joseph Health Center is the proud recipient of the 2008 Premier Award for Quality and has been awarded the Premier/Care Science Award for Excellence in Quality of Patient Care and Efficiency. St. Joseph is committed to a heritage of healing and will continue to provide superior essential healthcare services to the community.