Saint Louis University Hospital is a community for healing where knowledge, compassion and excellence come together. We're a regional leader in providing tertiary and quaternary level care to patients with severe illness and injury throughout eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. We serve as the academic teaching hospital for Saint Louis University's health sciences professional programs including the University's School of Medicine. Our hospital has been ranked by U.S. News &World Report as one of "America's Best Hospitals" in several medical specialties, including digestive disease, ear, nose and throat, geriatrics, heart, kidney, orthopedics, respiratory, rheumatology and urology. We also operate a Level I Trauma Center, which sees the most critical or severely injured emergency patients – and it's the only trauma center in the area certified as Level I in both Missouri and Illinois. Saint Louis University Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the nation's oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.