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St Marys Hospital St Louis

St. Mary's Hospital was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton. Construction began in 1923 and the doors opened on 1924-10-21. From the beginning, a nursing school was part of the facility. General was added to its name in 1959. A major expansion between 1959 and 1962 saw the hospital grow from 123 beds to 354. The expanded facility included an emergency department and an intensive care unit. The nursing school was closed, with training moved to Conestoga College. In 1989, activities at St. Mary's were coordinated with those at the K-W Hospital, and St. Mary's began to specialize in adult care.SSM St. Mary's Health Center is a general medical and surgical hospital in Saint Louis, MO. It performed nearly at the level of nationally ranked U.S. News Best Hospitals in 1 adult specialty, as shown below. SSM St. Mary's Health Center has 374 beds. The hospital had 19,602 admissions in the latest year for which data are available. It performed 3,239 annual inpatient and 4,741 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 43,002 visits. SSM St. Mary's Health Center is a teaching hospital.For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more.