Archview ER & Hospital will provide emergency, inpatient and outpatient services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including holidays.<\/p>\n
ST. LOUIS \u2014 A new micro-hospital will soon provide 24-hour healthcare in north St. Louis.<\/p>\n
It’s called Archview ER & Hospital, and it’s taking over the former Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital. The hospital is on N. Jefferson Avenue in the Carr Square neighborhood. It’s right next door to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n
Archview ER & Hospital<\/a> will provide emergency, inpatient and outpatient services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including holidays. A micro-hospital is a smaller-scale facility, which fills the gap between urgent care clinics and major hospitals.<\/p>\n The new operators are from Texas and Archview ER & Hospital is being launched in partnership with Nutex Health, Inc<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Karen Johnson was leading the former Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital as CEO. Now, she’s the new Chief Nursing Officer at Archview ER & Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly excited to open Archview ER & Hospital and bring high-quality, patient-centered care to the community,\u201d said Karen Johnson, MBA, BSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at Archview ER & Hospital. \u201cOur goal is to provide exceptional emergency and inpatient services close to home, delivered with compassion and efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n “To have a facility like that close… it’s nothing but good,” said Brian Krueger.<\/p>\n Krueger is reacting to the new micro-hospital in his neighborhood.<\/p>\n The hospital will provide emergency care, inpatient stays, diagnostic imaging, including MRI, CT, X-ray, and ultrasound, and clinical laboratory testing, all on-site and available for both adult and children patients.<\/p>\n Krueger added, “Absolutely it feels good! Tomorrow I could fall, I’m not a kid anymore. I could have a heart event. I could be in need of something that’s literally two minutes away, so I’m excited about that.”<\/p>\n The micro-hospital is Alderman Rasheen Aldridge’s ward.\u00a0<\/p>\n Aldridge shared, “It’s a healthcare desert in the area.”<\/p>\n Affinia, the closest health center<\/a>, is just a few minutes away but it does not run 24 hours.<\/p>\n “At the end of the day, we need that. The closest like major hospital is BJC, which is maybe 15, 20 minutes and when someone’s life is on the line, you wan to get to a location that’s close,” pointed out Aldridge.<\/p>\n Aldridge told 5 On Your Side that an Archview representative asked for a letter of support.<\/p>\n “I’m most likely will write a letter because we need that facility open, but there are conversations that need to be had to rebuild trust,” said Aldridge.<\/p>\n Rebuild trust after the former facility shut down. Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital was under developer Paul McKee and the NorthSide Regeneration Development project<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n