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The 155-acre Washington University Medical Center, spread over portions of 15 city blocks, is located along the eastern edge of Forest Park in St. Louis. Along the western edge of the park is the 169-acre Danforth Campus of the University. All campuses (North, West, Danforth and Medical) are connected by the MetroLink light rail system. The Danforth and Medical School campuses are also connected by the Washington University Gold MetroBus. Students, faculty and staff can access both of these modes of transport with a free U-Pass, obtained from the Transportation Office, along with their Washington University identification badge.
The Medical Center was incorporated in 1962. It now consists of Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Barnard Hospital and Central Institute for the Deaf, and is affiliated with BJC HealthCare. Two integral units of the Medical Center are the world-famous Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) and the Center for Computational Biology.
The Medical Center generates an annual financial impact of more than $2.6 billion for the St. Louis area, according to an economic model maintained by the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association. With more than 20,000 employees, the combined Medical Center institutions are among the largest employers in the metropolitan area.
Unprecedented growth has occurred at the Medical Center over the past 13 years. At the School of Medicine alone during the past five years, more than $162 million has been expended on renovation and new construction. Capital improvements and strategic purchases have added approximately 1 million square feet of space to the medical school during this same period. In the most recent fiscal year, more than $12 million of capital improvements were made at the School. Presently under construction is the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University, which will add approximately 245,000 square feet of lab, vivarium and support space and more than $130 million of capital improvements.
In the last 10 years, School of Medicine expansion has included the GSC Data Center, the Northwest Tower, the school's first dedicated teaching facility — the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, the Specialized Research Facility — East, the Southwest Tower/Charles F. Knight Emergency Center, the Center for Advanced Medicine, the McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, two parking garages and the acquisition of the Central Institute for the Deaf buildings.
The GSC Data Center (2008) is a state-of-the art data center located across Newstead Avenue from its parent department in the 4444 Forest Park Building. A 14,000-square-foot building houses a 3,000-square-foot data room capable of populating 120 high-speed blade center racks and disk racks. This new facility will allow the GSC Department to expand their research capability in the demanding world of sequencing grants and projects for years to come.
The eight-story Northwest Tower (2006) resides above the seven-level Children’s Hospital Garage. This new 190,000-square-foot building provides faculty office space.
The Farrell Learning and Teaching Center (2005), an 110,000-square-foot, six-story facility at the corner of Scott and Euclid avenues is the home for all of the medical school teaching labs; ER, patient room and OR simulation training rooms; small-group and seminar rooms; and all individual student study areas. A lecture hall, case-study hall and café are on the first floor of the building, which opened in August 2005.
The Specialized Research Facility — East (2004) is a 56,000-square-foot barrier facility supporting several research study programs.
The Center for Advanced Medicine (2001) at the corner of Euclid and Forest Park avenues is a shared facility between the school and BJC HealthCare. This building brings all of the Medical Center’s clinics together under one roof. The School of Medicine occupies 243,400 square feet in the Center for Advanced Medicine and 75,000 square feet on three floors in the new Southwest Tower. Located in the heart of the Center for Advanced Medicine is the 66,150-square-foot Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center. The Siteman Cancer Center is the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in the region.
The McDonnell Pediatric Research Building (2000) added 230,000 square feet of state-of-the-art research facilities — four and a half floors for the Department of Pediatrics, three floors for the Department of Molecular Microbiology, and one-half floor for the Department of Medicine — on the corner of Euclid Avenue and Children’s Place. This building includes a Barnes & Noble bookstore with a coffee shop on the ground level.
In addition, major renovations to existing buildings continue, with emphasis on research facilities. The Department of Genetics, together with the Department of Developmental Biology, recently started the Center for Genomics and Human Genetics, with a wet lab renovation of 30,000 square feet on the fifth floor of 4444 Forest Park. The Department of Biochemistry added a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer in a small addition to the Cancer Research Building. The Department of Ophthalmology remodeled their wet labs and offices on the 1st, 10th, 11th and 12th floors of the McMillan Hospital Building. The department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics renovated research labs on half of the second floor and the Department of Medicine renovated research labs on half of the seventh floor of the McDonnell Medical Sciences Building. A major renovation of the Maternity Hospital was recently completed for the Department of Obstetrics. Floors two through six are completely renovated into new office space for Obstetrics faculty and administration. The recently acquired building at 4533 Clayton Avenue has been renovated into office space for the departments of Anesthesiology, Radiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Ongoing improvements to the campus infrastructure are being made through the Public Realm Project, which is focused on landscape, street lighting and streetscape enhancements.
The School of Medicine is divided into two segments. Clinical departments are predominantly located on the west side of the Medical Center, adjacent to hospital and patient areas. Preclinical departments are to the east. Research and instructional endeavors occupy the greater portion of the facilities, with more than 1.8 million gross square feet devoted to these activities. In the aggregate, the medical school occupies nearly 6 million gross square feet of space on this campus.
The focal point of the preclinical teaching activities is the McDonnell Medical Sciences Building, the center of activity for entering medical students. The McDonnell Building, with 300,000 square feet of research laboratories, was made possible by James Smith McDonnell III, a generous benefactor of Washington University. Rising nine floors above ground, it contains administrative offices and two lecture halls on the first floor. Three floors of wet lab space were completely renovated in the last five years. Offices and research laboratories for the seven basic science departments are located on the upper floors. Modern centralized animal quarters are housed in the basement.
The North and South Buildings, in which the work of several Nobel laureates has centered, have been renovated extensively. Along with the Cancer Research Building, they continue to provide space for laboratories, offices and some departmental facilities.
The East Building houses an MRI facility, a cyclotron, computer installations and other components of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. The East Building also houses several administrative office suites.
A network of pedestrian bridges provides the ability to move freely among the major facilities, enhancing the interaction of all Medical Center institutions and benefiting research and patient care.
Other facilities owned or operated by Washington University include:
The 45,160-gross-square-foot Eric P. Newman Education Center accommodates nondegree professional education for the Medical Center. The education center provides auditoriums, classrooms, meeting space and lecture halls to support and enhance a comprehensive education program.
The five-story Biotechnology Center supports laboratories for the departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, Neurology and Pathology and Immunology.
McMillan Hospital Building houses offices and research laboratories for the departments of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Otolaryngology.
The Edward Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) is internationally recognized for excellence in teaching, research and clinical services. Housed in its own 13-story building, MIR has satellite facilities in Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals; the Clinical Sciences Research and East buildings; the Scott Avenue Imaging Center; the Center for Advanced Medicine; and the Charles F. Knight Emergency Center. Services also are provided at Barnes-Jewish West County and Barnes-Jewish St. Peters hospitals and at the Washington University Orthopedics and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Outpatient Orthopedic Center.
With consolidation of psychiatric patient care services in the West Pavilion, the eight-story Renard Hospital provides additional office and laboratory space for the Department of Psychiatry.
Maternity Hospital provides offices for the departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. A Perinatal Center and some Psychiatry clinical research are located in this building.
The West Building contains administrative offices and research laboratories for the Department of Pathology and Immunology and research labs for the Department of Medicine.
Wohl Hospital Building provides offices and laboratories for the Departments of Medicine and Surgery.
The resident clinics in Wohl Clinic are administered by Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The lower five floors contain clinical space and space for translational research. The first floor is home for the Chromalloy American Kidney Dialysis Center. The upper five floors are devoted to research facilities for several departments of the School of Medicine.
The 294,302-gross-square-foot building at 4444 Forest Park houses administrative offices of various medical school departments plus the Program in Physical Therapy, the Program in Occupational Therapy and a major research facility for the Department of Genetics and the Genome Sequencing Center, including the new Center for Genomics and Human Genetics.
The 4511 Forest Park Medical Building houses administrative offices and research labs for the Department of Radiation Oncology. The third-floor clinic and office area has recently been renovated into wet lab research space.
The 136,977-gross-square-foot, seven-story East McDonnell Specialized Research Facility is a maximum-barrier research facility to accommodate higher brain function research and transgenic studies.
The 10-story Clinical Sciences Research Building (CSRB) and North Tower Research Addition, 201,349 gross square feet, consolidates medical school specialized research into one structure. The top three floors of the addition house wet lab research space.
The major project now under construction is the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University.
The BJC Institute of Health at Washington University is being built to support the Washington University Biomed 21 Initiative. Phase 1 is under construction and will consist of approximately 675,000 square feet. It is an eleven and six-story building in the heart of the Medical Center. Phase 2 is scheduled to build an additional ten stories above the six-story portion of the building. Four of the top five floors are being fitted with wet labs to support the five research centers associated with the Washington University Biomed 21 Initiative along with lab space for Pathology and Immunology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatric Surgery. The total lab fit out will be 215,000 square feet. There is also a 30,000-square-foot vivaruim in the lower level. BJC will eventually occupy the first five floors, which are programmed for dietary services, cafeteria, pharmacy and clinical labs. This building is scheduled for occupancy in December 2009.
Founded in 1911, the Bernard Becker Medical Library is one of the oldest and most comprehensive medical libraries west of the Mississippi. The library serves as an information services hub for the Medical Center and extends its services and resources to the global health science community.
The facility, completed in 1989, integrates biomedical information resources and information technology. The eight-level, 114,000-square-foot structure has capacity for more than 300,000 volumes. The biomedical resource collection includes 33 databases, over 4,600 full-text e-journals, 3,235 e-books and numerous selected web sites. The library also holds 4,500 print journals, 114,000 print books and 1,500 audiovisual items.
The library’s Translational Research Support Division addresses the broader goals of translational biomedicine by providing information resources and expertise that contribute to basic research, health information outreach to consumers and the community, and the publication and dissemination of scientific information. The Division includes two bioinformaticists who provide instruction, consultation services, and support for specialized software and databases for the bioinformatics, genomic and basic science research community. The Division’s public health librarian develops programs to foster consumer health literacy, seeking opportunities to partner with the School of Medicine, Medical Center groups, and local organizations to improve health literacy. The Division also includes a Scholarly Communications Specialist to increase awareness among faculty of the issues and options for disseminating and storing scientific information as the digital age redefines standard publishing models.
The Health Information Resources Division provides a broad range of biomedical information resources and training services covering clinical point of care, evidence-based medicine and information management. Through this division the library focuses on integrating information management into the curricula of the various educational programs and promoting the effective use of information resources in the school’s clinical mission. Librarians in this division focus on each of the school’s divisions, departments or programs to meet their specific information needs. Circulation services, interlibrary lending and document delivery also fall within the scope of services managed by the Health Information Resources Division.
Special Collections (Archives and Rare Books) is a unique and important unit of the library’s resources. The Archives preserve and make accessible 811 archival collections, composed of institutional records, manuscripts, visual items and oral histories that document the Medical Center’s institutional history, ongoing progress and many significant contributions of its faculty. Among the manuscript collections are papers of William Beaumont, Joseph Erlanger, E.V. Cowdry, Evarts Graham and Carl Cori. There are nine distinct rare book collections containing over 26,000 volumes available for scholarly use. These acclaimed collections include the Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology, the CID-Max Goldstein Collection in Speech and Hearing, the H. Richard Tyler Collection in Neurology and the Paracelsus Collection of the St. Louis Medical Society.
The Bernard Becker Medical Library takes pride in providing the latest biomedical information and services to the Medical Center. For detailed information about the library's programs and services, visit becker.wustl.edu/.
The library is open to the general public Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Library hours for affiliated users are:
Monday-Thursday: 7:30 a.m. – midnight
Friday: 7:30 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Saturday: 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday: noon – midnight
Telephone numbers:
Circulation Services: (314) 362-7080
Information Services: (314) 362-7085
Interlibrary Loan: (314) 747-0029
Archives and Rare Books: (314) 362-4236
Barnes-Jewish Hospital has a premier reputation in patient care, medical education, research and community service and is the only adult teaching hospital of Washington University School of Medicine, ranked among the top five medical schools in the country. The Barnes-Jewish staff includes professional nurses, technicians, service and support personnel, plus more than 1,700 physicians and 822 residents, interns and fellows. Barnes-Jewish is licensed for 1,252 beds and in 2008 had 53,831 inpatient admissions, along with 81,895 emergency department visits. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is the first adult hospital in Missouri to receive Magnet recognition, the highest award given by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and was recertified as a Magnet hospital in 2008. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is consistently ranked on the "Honor Roll" of America's best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
Since 1879, St. Louis Children’s Hospital has been at the forefront of pediatric medicine, with physicians, nurses and staff who dedicate their lives to the care of children. The hospital provides a full range of health services to children and their families throughout its 300-mile service area, as well as nationally and internationally. Its spectrum of pediatric specialty services includes newborn medicine, cardiology, neurosurgery and the world’s leading pediatric lung transplant program. Both Parents magazine and U.S.News & World Report rank St. Louis Children’s Hospital among the best children’s hospitals in America. The hospital has also received the Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the nation’s highest honor for nursing excellence.
St. Louis Children’s Hospital provides an array of community outreach services, including pediatric mobile health vans, injury prevention programs, educational classes on parenting and child development, as well as patient and parent support groups. The hospital also operates the 454-KIDS Answer Line, a free child health information service and physician referral line staffed by pediatric registered nurses and referral specialists.
BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and mid-Missouri regions. With net revenue of $3.2 billion, BJC serves urban, suburban and rural communities and includes 13 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.
Through a collaboration among the Barnard Cancer Institute, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University, medically indigent patients with cancer or diseases of the skin receive care at no cost to them from Washington University physicians at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The Barnard Cancer Institute also houses the Washington University General Research Unit, part of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) Center for Applied Research Sciences (CARS), a support center for Washington University clinical investigators.
Founded in 1914 as a place where teachers, hearing and speech professionals, and parents work together to help children who are deaf and hard of hearing, Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) is an internationally recognized center for deaf education, preparing its students to participate and succeed in mainstream educational settings. CID teachers use the auditory-oral method, helping deaf children learn to speak, listen and read with proficiency without the use of sign language. CID’s acoustically enhanced "quiet school" features the Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center, serving children and their families from birth to 3. CID pre-K and primary school programs serve students ages 3 to 12. CID school children have come from 48 U.S. states and 27 other countries.
CID services include mainstream transitional assistance for students and families, in-service training for teachers, continuing education workshops for professionals and books, evaluations and curricula used to help children in all U.S. states and at least 33 countries throughout the world.
CID is financially independent from, but closely affiliated with, CID at Washington University School of Medicine, which continues to operate CID-developed adult clinic, research and academic programs that benefit children and adults with hearing loss. The University acquired these programs in September 2003 along with state-of-the-art facilities at the CID campus, 4560 Clayton Ave. CID continues to provide faculty and practicum sites for the University’s graduate degree programs in deaf education and audiology. CID teachers and pediatric audiologists continue to work closely with its speech and hearing scientists in studies involving children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is world-renowned for its basic science, translational research, patient care and outreach. The Siteman Cancer Center, which holds more than $135 million in extramural funding for cancer research, is organized into nine research programs (Cancer and Developmental Biology, Tumor Immunology, Hematopoietic Development and Malignancy, Cellular Proliferation, Oncologic Imaging, Prevention and Control, Translational and Clinical Research, Breast Cancer Research, and DNA Metabolism and Repair). The Siteman Cancer Center also provides 15 shared resource facilities (with one in development) to its more than 270 research members. Shared resource facilities include: Bioinformatics Core, Biostatistics Core, Clinical Trials Core, Embryonic Stem Cell Core, Hereditary Cancer Core, High-Speed Cell Sorter Core, Molecular Core Laboratory, Multiplexed Gene Analysis Core, Proteomics Core, Small Animal Cancer Imaging Core, Health Behavior and Outreach Core, Good Manufacturing Practice Facility, Tissue Procurement Core, Imaging Response Assessment Team (IRAT) Core, and a High Through-put Core. A Dissemination to Practice Core shared resource is in development. The Siteman Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD), in partnership with the community, addresses racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other disparities in cancer-related education, care and research.
Other hospitals. The following hospitals and facilities also are associated with the School of Medicine, and Washington University physicians treat patients at these locations:
• Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
• Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
• Christian Hospital Northeast
• Missouri Baptist Medical Center
• Veterans Administration Medical Center
• Shriners Hospital for Children
• Parkland Health Center
• Progress West HealthCare Center
• Phelps County Regional Medical Center
• Southeast Missouri Hospital
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