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its headquarters state of Wisconsin. Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, with nearly 860 beds, is the largest rival to Barnes-Jewish and adds to a highly com petitive market for care delivery. SSM, which is aligned with Saint Louis Univer sity, brings 332 more beds to market. In other parts of

Accordingly, there is considerably more cross-state movement between patients and providers than in St. Louis. And Kansas City is blessed with multiple major medical centers as well as teaching research and community hospitals. On

Anchoring health-care in central Missouri is the University of Missouri Health in Columbia, the teaching hospital affiliated with Mizzou. With 643 beds, it’s the state’s sixth-largest and includes the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. To the

northwest, the 352 beds at Mosaic Life

Combined, Missouri’s 83 acute-care hospitals admitted nearly 660,000 patients and produced 3.4 million patient days in 2022, generating $90.2 billion in patient revenue and accounting for 170,000 employees.

the state, CoxHealth has its biggest facility in Springfield, at 867 beds, and an impor tant additional campus with 157 beds in Bran son.

Center’s main hospital in St. Joseph are just the start of that institution’s ex tensive reach across multiple counties to the north, a service territory bordering both Nebraska and Iowa. Even in the rural areas of a state that spans 62,000 square miles, access to emergency medical services is often just minutes away. Air-ambulance heliports at more than 110 medical centers and community hospital locations serve more than 670,000 people who live in nearly 80 counties outside of MSA designation.

The Kansas City metropolitan region offers an even wider diversity of provider options, thanks to the population dynamics that differentiate it from St. Louis. The latter market has far more residents on the Missouri side of the Mississippi than their Illinois neighbors. Kansas City, by contrast, is divided almost equally by a state line, whether measured by population, wealth, or health-care assets.

the Missouri side, HCA Health Midwest and Saint Luke’s Health System have more than a dozen of those facilities combined. The biggest of the systems is HCA Midwest Health, with nearly a dozen hospitals anchored by the 480-bed Research Medical Center complex. Saint Luke’s, with 422 beds, is the flagship of a system with facilities across the Kansas City area.

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