St. Anthony's Medical Center

St. Anthony's Medical Center
A statue of St. Anthony of Padua at the hospital's entrance
Geography
Location	10010 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Coordinates	38°30′25″N 90°22′49″W / 38.50698°N 90.38014°W / 38.50698; -90.38014Coordinates: 38°30′25″N 90°22′49″W / 38.50698°N 90.38014°W / 38.50698; -90.38014
Organization
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Hospital type	Community
Services
Emergency department	Level II Trauma certification
Beds	767
History
Founded	1900 (1900) by the Franciscan Sisters of Germany
Links
Website	StAnthonysMedcenter.com
Lists	Hospitals in Missouri

St. Anthony's Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, is the third-largest medical center in Greater St. Louis. It serves families in the city and county of St. Louis, as well as Jefferson County, Franklin County, Saint Francois County, Sainte Genevieve County and Washington County in Missouri, along with Monroe, Randolph and St. Clair counties in Illinois. In addition, St. Anthony’s operates four urgent care facilities located in Arnold, Fenton, Kirkwood, and Lemay.

St. Anthony's has 767 licensed beds and is staffed by approximately 3,700 employees, 790 physicians and provides care to approximately 200,000 patients each year.

In 1900, the Franciscan Sisters, Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, based in Wheaton, Illinois, opened St. Anthony's Hospital at Grand and Chippewa in south St. Louis. The facility was named after Anthony of Padua, an early disciple of Francis of Assisi, who patterned his life and healing ministry after the example set by Jesus Christ.

Following St. Louis' first polio epidemic in 1946, St. Anthony's Hospital became designated by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) as its Midwest Center for polio treatment. In 1947, convalescent children who had survived polio under the auspices of the NFIP—later known as the March of Dimes—and its city and county chapters were brought to this hospital. It became one of the country's largest polio rehabilitation centers, treating more than 100 polio patients per day. In 1954, the incidence of new cases of polio tapered off and the hospital began offering twice-yearly Salk polio vaccine clinics.

In 1967, the Franciscan Sisters transferred ownership and control of the hospital to a board of community leaders, making St. Anthony's the first Catholic hospital in the St. Louis area to be administered by a lay board. In 1975, St. Anthony's Medical Center opened at its present location at 10010 Kennerly Road and remains the only hospital located in south St. Louis County.