The Washington University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Barnes-Jewish Hospital have begun construction of a new, $13 million outpatient orthopaedic facility on property in a prime west St. Louis County location.
The building, at 14532 South Outer Forty Drive in Chesterfield, will be a 60,000 square foot facility offering comprehensive, one-stop outpatient care — including physician offices, examination rooms, ambulatory surgery suites, diagnostic radiology (including MRI imaging and general diagnostic services) and rehabilitation and hand therapy services.
The center will be the department’s primary facility for sports medicine, hand surgery, shoulder surgery, foot and ankle surgery and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
“This facility is being designed to provide patients with the latest, technologically advanced orthopaedic care,” says Richard H. Gelberman, M.D., the Fred C. Reynolds Professor and head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and chief of orthopaedic surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. “Patients will have access to minimally invasive surgical procedures that will allow them to be admitted and discharged on the same day. Non-surgical services will include a rehabilitation center, and the building will include space to support future expansions when they become necessary.”
All surgeons, physiatrists, radiologists and anesthesiologists at the new center will be Washington University physicians. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, affiliated with BJC HealthCare, will manage the ambulatory surgery center, including pre-operative, operative and post-operative services and the radiology services including the MRI and general diagnostic radiology. Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital will manage the rehabilitative service and outpatient physical therapy, and hand services will be provided by physical therapists from the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis’ Milliken Hand Rehabilitation Center.
The facility will relocate and expand orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine services from clinical offices at 1020 North Mason Road, near Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. The services offered in the new location will complement the department’s existing clinical practice at the Center for Advanced Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital at the Washington University Medical Center, where spinal, joint replacement, trauma and orthopaedic oncology services are based.
Clayco is the general contractor, the developer is Clayco Realty Group and ACI-Boland the project architect. Construction already has begun and is scheduled for completion during the summer of 2007.
Washington University School of Medicine’s full-time and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient care institutions in the nation, currently ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, a 1,374-bed nonprofit academic hospital, is the largest hospital in Missouri and is consistently ranked among the Honor Roll of America’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. The adult teaching hospital of Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish has a 1,784 member medical staff with many who are listed in America’s Top Doctors. Barnes-Jewish Hospital was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a Magnet Hospital for its nursing excellence. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a member of BJC HealthCare, one of the largest nonprofit health-care organizations in the United States.