Emergency department Level I trauma center Phone +1 314-577-5600 Care system SSM Health | Lists Hospitals in Missouri Founded 1956 Hospital type Pediatrics | |
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Location 1465 South Grand Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri, United States Affiliated university Department of Pediatrics, Saint Louis University School of Medicine Address 1465 S Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA Similar St Louis Children's Hospital, Sallee Heidi Marie MD, Cardinal Glennon Child Me, SSM Health St Mary's Ho, Missouri Regional Poison C Profiles | ||
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital is a non-for-profit 195-bed inpatient and outpatient pediatric medical center in the US city of St. Louis, Missouri. As the nation’s only free-standing, Catholic children’s hospital, Cardinal Glennon has provided care for children regardless of ability to pay since 1956. Cardinal Glennon primarily serves children from eastern Missouri and southern Illinois, but also treats children across the United States and from countries around the world.
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- Ssm health cardinal glennon children s hospital gbr16 teamgracie
- History
- Departments
- Other Things
- The firsts
- Expansion
- Celebrity supporters
- Research
- References
Cardinal Glennon also serves as a teaching hospital affiliated with the neighboring Saint Louis University Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and nine other education institutes. Cardinal Glennon is a member of SSM Health Care, one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the country. SSM Health is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary and owns, operates and manages 19 acute care hospitals in four states — Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. In 2002, SSM Health was the first health care organization in the country to be named a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner.
Ssm health cardinal glennon children s hospital gbr16 teamgracie
History
Originally named Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children after John Cardinal Glennon the Archbishop of St. Louis from 1903-1946, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital first opened its doors in July 1956. It was the Archbishop's mission to see a health care facility open to all children in need of medical care.
Departments
Cardinal Glennon is home to physician experts in more than 60 areas of pediatric medical specialties including cardiology, critical care, rehabilitation, pulmonology, minimally invasive surgery, fetal surgery, hematology/oncology, sleep disorders, weight management and others.
The hospital is home to the Level 1 pediatric trauma center and a Level 4 neonatal intensive care unit, both the highest available classification, and the St. Louis Fetal Care Institute. The St. Louis Fetal Care Institute is the only comprehensive fetal care center in middle America.
Other Things
In addition, the hospital offers:
The "firsts"
Cardinal Glennon was the first medical center to:
In 2010, Cardinal Glennon welcomed 46,157 patients to the emergency department. The hospital had a total of 6,964 admissions with physicians performing 1,806 inpatient and 5,844 outpatient surgeries. There are over 575 physicians and about 550 nurses on staff. In addition, Cardinal Glennon embraces over 41,000 hours of volunteer service every year.
Expansion
Since 1996, more than $200 million has been invested in facility expansion. In 2009, Cardinal Glennon opened the St. Louis Fetal Care Institute.
Coming soon: A “hybrid” cardiac surgery and catheterization suite that will save lives and reduce the number of surgeries required for heart patients, particularly very young infants.
Celebrity supporters
World-renowned sportscaster Bob Costas has provided a tremendous amount of support to Cardinal Glennon, annually hosting an event at the Fabulous Fox Theatre that donates proceeds to the hospital, in addition to his sponsorship of the “Bob Costas Cancer Center.” Former NFL St. Louis Rams Quarter-back Kurt Warner sponsored the “Warner’s Corner,” an interactive playroom for pre-teen, and teenaged in-house patients. Former American football player and current television sportscaster Dan Dierdorf sponsored “The Dan Dierdorf Pediatric Emergency and Trauma Center.”
Former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday makes frequent appearances and raises money through a program called Homers for Health, initiated in 2012. In its first five years, the effort raised more than $3.7 million. Said Cardinal Glennon’s director of marketing and communications Rose Fogarty, “He has done more than any other Cardinal has done for this hospital since Stan Musial. They (Holliday and wife Leslee) put Cardinal Glennon on the map again in St. Louis. Matt and Leslee brought us into the limelight.”
Research
Ongoing programs include the study of pediatric infections and vaccine development, cardiac transplant rejection, liver diseases (particularly related to alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and abnormal iron metabolism), metabolic diseases (Morquio Syndrome) and neonatal lung inflammation.