News Summary

• The new 16-story Plaza West Tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital boasts two rooftop garden areas outside the fifth floor where patients’ family and friends can find respite.
• The new tower will allow the hospital to care for 80 to 100 more heart and vascular patients at any given time.
• The price tag is unknown.
• The hospital has added more than 200 new providers and support staff.
• All new imaging machines, including five proton-emitting CT scanners that expose patients to less radiation, take up two floors.