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Amazon employees, nurses and workers rights advocates gathered to call out working conditions they say don’t help employees stay healthy.

Cardinal Glennon and SSM Health announced plans to build a 14-story hospital on Grand Boulevard. The planned hospital will be built two blocks north of the hospital’s current 195-bed facility, which opened in 1956.

Dozens of nurses on Monday formed a picket line outside SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital on South Grand Boulevard to call for better staffing, guaranteed breaks and more comprehensive sick leave policies.

A growing number of people are testing positive for the coronavirus, but Missouri scientists say the virus still poses a smaller threat to residents than during the height of the pandemic.

SSM Health is shutting down its trauma center at DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, the last state-designated trauma center in north St. Louis County. SSM Health officials say it's because so few patients who come to the hospital ER need trauma services, but advocates and EMS workers say the decision could put patients with life-threatening injuries at risk.

Legislation directs social services, mental health departments to collaborate on solutions to clients being boarded in medical and mental health facilities ‘without medical justification’

With a 40% staff vacancy rate, SLU Hospital has nurses caring for up to six patients per day, which they say poses a safety risk.

A four-year study will help develop AI software that will speed up the process of matching donated kidneys with patients in need, especially those not at the top of the transplant list.

SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital nurses say that their departments are regularly understaffed and that hospital management has not done enough to address their concerns.

While coronavirus outbreaks have largely been concentrated in southern Missouri, epidemiologists from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services say the number of cases is now rising in other parts of the state, including the St. Louis region. Rural counties with low vaccination rates also are at risk of large outbreaks.