Hospitals

The agreement comes as other patients await a decision between UnitedHealthCare and SSM.

Thousands of SSM patients could lose access to in-network providers if the two companies don’t reach a deal soon.

Workers finished the skeleton of the once-controversial new facility near Rock Hill Road and Gore Avenue, set to open late next year.

The new rule caps loans for grad students in what the Department of Education considers “non-professional fields,” which includes nursing.

The former Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital will be redubbed Archview ER and Hospital. Hospital officials say it will operate as a “micro-hospital” and provide “concierge-level” community care.

The former St. Alexius-Jefferson hospital campus has been vacant since 2022. Neighbors, fed up with what they claim is a deteriorating and dangerous property, want change soon.

Officials said the $116 million project is necessary to meet the needs of an aging population.

The new hospital at the Army post in the Ozarks was rumored to be under consideration to be downgraded to a clinic.

Approximately half of the employees who lost their jobs at the Des Peres hospital were able to find work at other St. Luke’s locations, a spokeswoman said in an email.

Around two dozen people from local health organizations aired concerns Wednesday at a roundtable in downtown St. Louis convened by U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell.