Less than a week after total knee replacement surgery, Karen Schrader is walking around on her farm

Orthopedic Services

More Procedures = Better Outcome

Orthopedic Extras

Avoiding sports injuries

Open House for VIPs at St. Anthony's Medical Center new Ortho-Spine Center

Ortho-Spine Center Open House for South County Chamber of Commerce

Ortho-Spine Center Employee Open House

Orthopedics in the News

Four-year, $90 million project is completed at St. Anthony's Medical Center

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Facts

• The more orthopedic procedures that are done by physicians at a facility, the better the patient's outcome.
• St. Anthony’s Medical Center has one of the largest orthopedic programs in the region.
• St. Anthony's is the leading hospital in the St. Louis area for hip and knee replacements.
• St. Anthony’s has a lower complication rate and fewer readmissions of orthopedic patients than other hospitals, according to a national comparison database (The Delta Group, Inc., 2009).

More Patients Treated

More than 3,000 patients are treated at St. Anthony’s each year for:

• sports injuries
• broken bones
• torn ligaments
• spine fusions
• artificial discs
• total joint replacements

Patient Satisfaction

Patients consistently give the orthopedic services at St. Anthony's high marks in meeting their personal satisfaction. This is in large part due to the skilled orthopedic surgeons on staff that offer expertise in all traditional open and minimally invasive procedures as well as the dedicated and experienced nursing staff which keeps St. Anthony's on the leading edge of orthopedic surgery technology.

Ortho-Spine Center

In August 2009, the new Ortho-Spine Center opened. This dedicated area features:

• All private rooms, which are especially designed for the needs of orthopedic patients
• Fully equipped orthopedic gym facility for physical therapy on the same floor

The physical layout compliments the specially trained staff to provide the best possible nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy and related services in one convenient location.

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For information, please call our Health Access Line at 314-ANTHONY (268-4669) or 800-554-9550
or visit find a physician online.

At St. Anthony’s, our vision is to be the area’s premier health care organization
— and your first choice for health care services.