City: Richmond Heights, MO

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (314) 768-8000

Address: 6420 Clayton Road

Description: SSM St. Mary’s Health Center is a 600-bed facility with more than 800 physicians on staff, representing all medical specialties. The hospital is a major tertiary hospital affiliated with Saint Louis University Medical School and offers services that include comprehensive obstetrics and cardiology services, including high-risk obstetrics and open-heart surgery, total joint replacement, and advanced breast cancer detection approaches, including the stereotactic needle core biopsy, an outpatient procedure that allows physicians to extract tiny tissue samples without surgery. St. Mary’s Emergency Department is a state-of-the-art facility that provides special facilities for OB/GYN patients, a decontamination room to treat chemical exposures, and an area specifically designed to quickly identify and treat heart problems.