First month exceeds SSM St. Clare

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Since its March 30 opening, patient volume at the 154-bee hospital has exceeded expectations by more than 70 percentt in both inpatient admissions and emergency room For the monthof April, the hospital had anticipated having an average daily inpatient censusd of about 55, but the actual number was closer to 100. “It’ s been challenging to manage volume that muchbeyond expectations,” said Bob president-programs and services/chief strategy officer for -St. of which St. Clares is part. “It has been St.
Clare has added 100 employees to its staft in the last60 days, going from 750 employees to aroundf 850, and the hospital is in the process of hiring according to Sherry Hausmann, hospital “Some of our sister facilities are helpintg us (with staffing) to meet the Hausmann said. “We are also hiringf rapidly and training clinical staff inmultiplw areas.” Hausmann said demand has been particularluy strong for cardiology services. As a result, the hospitap already is building out an additional interventional catheter lab that had been shelled in forfuturre use.
The three existing interventional suites havebeen “runningy every day all day long,” Hausmann prompting the decision to move aheasd with the addition of the fourth suite. The hospital also is in the earlyt planning stages of decidinf how to allocate space for 20 additional beds availablwe on thefifth floor. SSM Healthb Care invested $236 million to build the 600,000-square-fooft facility in Fenton to replacethe 54-year-olx SSM St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood, whicu closed its doors upon St. Clare’s opening. A retirement to be known as Aberdeen is slated to be built on theformet St. Joseph site, but has been delayed until theeconomy improves. St.
Clare’d new 54-acre campus at Highway 141 andBowlee Avenue, less than six miles away from the old St. Joseph, includez a heart institute, cancer care, outpatient center, outpatient diagnosti center andmedical offices. The facility includes 154 privatsepatient rooms, 30 emergency service exam rooms, eighgt operating rooms, 12 labor and deliveryg suites and 10 OB/GYN patient suites. Work is still unde r way on theoutpatient center, which is scheduled to open in The first floor of the building will house an outpatient surgery center, and the seconf floor will be physician offices. Finao buildout also continues in the medica l office buildingon St. Clare’s campus.
The building is almost 70 percentleased currently. Neighboringb hospitals said they have not seen significanf changes to their patient volumes sincwe the new hospital openedits , which is less than seven miles away from St. has not experienced a decline inpatient volume, accordinbg to Rob Thames, chief operatingf officer. St. Anthony’s number of ER visites in Aprilwas “way over” the numbert of visits for April of last Thames said. However, St. Anthony’s did see a slight declin e in volume at its urgent care center in Fento nupon St. Clare’s opening. Its urgent care centef on Big Bend, meanwhile, experienced a correspondingt bump in patient volumewhen St.
Josepuh closed. “It’s what we had been Thames said. Spokeswomen from and , which are both about 13 milea awayfrom St. Clare, said the hospitals had seen no declinse in either inpatient volume or ER visits since the newhospitall opened. “Since this was a replacement we did not anticipate that it woulfdaffect us,” said Beth Fagan, directoer of communications and marketing for Missouri Baptist.