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In the past, health services were viewed as aiming to save lives. However, health care providers spend most of their time attempting to improve the quality of their patients' lives in a physical, psychological or social capacity.
This is known as "functional health status." At St. Anthony's, we use well-constructed measures to determine reliable answers to subjective concepts, such as:
By measuring health outcomes one treatment at a time, we can look at the extent to which a treatment restores a patient to his or her usual function.
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.