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St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield has once again received a national award of excellence for its website, www.stlukes-stl.com from the World Wide Web Health Awards Program.
St. Luke's website received Silver (second place) honors for Patient Education Information for a Hospital/Healthcare system website. The World Wide Web Health Awards recognizes the best health-related websites for consumers and professionals. The HIRC, a national clearinghouse for consumer health information programs and materials, organizes the World Wide Web Health Awards. The Web-based health awards are an extension of the HIRC's 10-year old National Health Information Awards (NHIA), the largest program of its kind in the United States.
St. Luke's website was recently re-launched to meet the increasing demands for available health information. The website includes many innovative features, including a site just for physicians, patient care quality reports, online requests for physician appointments and online health e-updates. The goal of the revised website is to offer easier navigation and increased patient education information to further the goal of St. Luke's as the region's leader in health information.
Visitors to St. Luke's website can take advantage of many helpful, interactive services such as:
- Requesting an appointment with a St. Luke's physician
- Registering for bi-monthly health information emails
- Paying bills on-line
- Designing and sending greeting cards to patients at St. Luke's
- St. Luke's patients who are expecting a baby can pre-register for their stay
- Registering to receive personalized, free weekly health information emails during pregnancy
- Registering for classes and programs
St. Luke's is a premier, regional healthcare provider, specializing in cardiac services, women's services, cancer, general medicine, neurosurgery and neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, outpatient services, pediatrics, and comprehensive surgical services. Its advanced facilities and specialty focus programs include St. Luke's Institute for Health Education, the Breast Care Center, the Osteoporosis Center, Special Delivery Suites, the Howard A. Stamper Radiation Oncology Center, Women's Outpatient Diagnostic Center and Therapy Services.
St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield is the only hospital in the St. Louis region to consistently be named among the nation's Top 100 Hospitals for cardiovascular services and overall hospital performance (SolucientÒ Health Care Database, February, 2005).
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