St. Mary's Health Center:

St. Mary's Health Center is a full-service, 350-bed, community teaching hospital and tertiary referral center located in Richmond Heights, Mo., immediately west of the St. Louis city limits and at the center of a diverse metropolitan population of about 2.5 million. St. Mary's is a major Teaching Affiliate of the St. Louis University School of Medicine and has a sixty year tradition of teaching students and residents.

The Health Center is a member of the SSM Health Care Network and the not-for-profit SSM Health Care System, that operates 19 health facilities and a variety of health businesses and programs in five states under the sponsorship of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, a century old Catholic congregation dedicated exclusively to compassionate, quality health care. The SSM Health Care System  is one of the 10 largest Catholic health care systems in the United States