Christian Hospital ER is area’s busiest, report says

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch profiled the emergency department of Christian Hospital, which the newspaper’s data reports was the busiest in the St. Louis area in 2012. In large part this is due to patients using the ER for primary care services, the report says. Read the article.

Following are the number of emergency department visits in 2012 at the area’s busiest ERs as listed in the newspaper:

Christian Hospital: 112,117

Barnes-Jewish Hospital: 98,490

Mercy Hospital St. Louis: 81,000

St. Anthony’s Medical Center: 69,413

Memorial Hospital: 65,768

SSM DePaul Health Center: 64,494

St. Louis Children’s Hospital: 52,917

SSM St. Mary’s Health Center: 52,815

SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center: 49,049

SSM St. Clare Health Center – 42,669

Missouri Baptist Medical Center: 42,112