The Center for Advanced Medicine is located at the corner of Forest Park and Euclid avenues.
April 20, 2001
The School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital have chosen Center for Advanced Medicine as the official name of the new ambulatory care center, scheduled to open in November at the corner of Forest Park and Euclid avenues. The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center also will be housed there.
The Center for Advanced Medicine is located at the corner of Forest Park and Euclid avenues. |
The 14-story Center for Advanced Medicine was designed more than three years ago to provide a single location in which ambulatory patients can park conveniently, see their physician and receive diagnostic testing and ancillary care services.
"More than a building, the Center for Advanced Medicine will offer a new paradigm in patient care, and the name selected for our facility communicates that promise," said Jim Crane, M.D., associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs and chief executive officer of the Faculty Practice Plan at the medical school. "Here, patients will receive outpatient care and have convenient access to the very latest medical innovations and technology."
Lee Bernstein, vice president of administration at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, said, "This new facility was designed to greatly enhance our ability to provide exceptional care for patients in a world-class setting. The name simply reflects that fact."
Before making a final decision, potential names for the new facility were tested with health-care consumers.
Currently, adult patient services are offered in 32 areas of the sprawling medical center. Because approximately one-third of patients see more than one health-care provider or receive ancillary medical services or both, they sometimes are required to walk several blocks between appointments.
The Center for Advanced Medicine will be organized into multidisciplinary clinical centers, which group together specialties that tend to see the same types of patients. For example, the lung center will include specialists in pulmonary medicine, allergy and immunology, thoracic surgery and lung transplantation. Associated ancillary services, such as chest X-ray and pulmonary function testing, will be located in the physician practice area.
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