Resources for Health Professionals
Delivering the Right Solution at the Right Time
SLUCare Physician Group and SSM Health knows your time is valuable, so we have created a one-stop resource for finding education and training opportunities, admission and referral information, as well as other resources important to our doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals.
Find information on admitting, transferring or referring a patient to an SSM Health hospital and or a SLUCare program.
SLUCare Physician Group and SSM Health offer residencies and fellowships in the medical and pharmaceutical fields at our academic medical centers.
Education & Training Opportunities
SLUCare Physician Group and SSM Health provide continuing education opportunities for physicians, nurses and other allied health professionals that support our care teams.
We offer pharmacy residency programs and graduate medical education residency and fellowship opportunities in an academic hospital setting.
Admission & Referral Information
SLUCare Physician Group works with hospitals, medical groups, referring physicians and other community providers in the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan Area and beyond. Here you can find referral, admissions and transfer information that you might need as a referring doctor.
Need to make a referral or admit a patient to behavioral health?
Call the SSM Health Central Intake line for behavioral health referral or admissions information for the St. Louis area at 800-426-2083.
We continue to enhance our provider search so that it is easier for health care providers to find the specialist that best meets a patient's needs. Our provider finder searches by provider name, department, and keyword terms, including conditions our providers treat.
SLUCare Admission & Referral Resources
Locations Guide for Referring Providers
Download a SLUCare locations directory.
Referring to Saint Louis University Hospital
Learn more about the requirements to transfer a patient to SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital.
St. Louis Maternal & Fetal Care Referral
Learn more about the options you have for referring a patient for maternal and fetal care at SSM Health.
Transplant Referral
The SSM Health Transplant Center at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital provides comprehensive kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver, and liver-kidney transplant services in a newly-renovated, state-of-the-art clinic.
Access Center
Referring providers have counted on the SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Access Center as the first one-call number to get connected quickly to expert care for emergent Neonatal, Pediatric and Maternal Fetal Medicine services.
Pediatric Transplant Referrals
The transplant team at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital provides comprehensive heart, kidney, liver, and blood and bone marrow transplant services.
Refer a patient for a minimally invasive image-guided procedure.
SLUCare provides an extensive range of minimally invasive image-guided procedures (MIIPs), performed by board-certified, fellowship-trained specialists in vascular interventional radiology.
Our team works with hepatologists, transplant surgeons, urologists, medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, pulmonologists, critical care specialists, trauma surgeons and others to provide comprehensive care for patients. We take a multidisciplinary approach to formulate the best solutions to our most challenging cases.
To Refer a Patient
Call our interventional radiology coordinators at 314-617-2888 or fax us at 314-257-2171.
- Peripheral vascular disease (PVD)
- Acute thrombo-occlusive disease (cold foot)
- Claudication
- Critical limb ischemia: ulcers
- Angiogram, angioplasty and stents
- Thrombolysis and thrombectomy
- Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation (AVM) treatment
- Pulmonary embolus thrombolysis
- Lung biopsy and fiducial placement
- Cisterna-chyli ablation for chylothorax
- Bronchial embolization
- Lung ablation (microwave, RFA and cyroablations)
- Thoracentesis and chest tube placement
- AV fistulogram and fistula repair
- Declot of AV fistula/graft
- Angioplasty and stenting
- Permanent catheter placement
- Percutaneous gastrostomy
- Percutaneous gastrojejunostomy
- Percutaneous jejunostomy
- Upper and lower GI bleeding embolization
- Renal artery stenosis
- Percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN)
- Ureteric dilatation and stent placement
- Ureteric stent retrieval
- Kidney biopsy
- Prostate biopsy
- Urinoma related procedures
- Biopsy of the liver, kidney and lymph nodes
- Abscess drainage
- Chest tube placement
- Thoracentesis and paracentesis
- Lavage and debridement
- Pseudo-aneurysm thrombin injection
- Percutaneous and transjugular liver biopsy
- Transjugular hepatic venography and pressure measurement
- Transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (TIPS)
- Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO)
- Portal vein embolization for FLR hypertrophy
- Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC)
- Biliary drainage, dilatation and stent placement
- Cholecystostomy
- Liver cyst sclerotherapy
- Hepatic artery thrombosis and stenosis
- Portal vein and biliary dilatation
- Biopsy
- Prostate embolization for BPH
- Infertility – varicocele embolization
- Vascular disease
- Bone and tissue biopsy
- Bone tumor ablation
- Joint and facet injection
- Cementoplasty
- Soft tissue vascular malformation treatment
- Cerebral angiography
- Thrombolytic therapy for stroke
- Endovascular coiling for aneurysms
- Carotid artery angioplasty/stenting
- Extra-cranial procedures, including epistaxis
- Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)
- Y90 treatment of liver (radioembolization)
- Tumor ablations: liver, kidney, lung and bone
- Portal vein embolization
- Prostate fiducial and lung fiducial placement
- Vertebral tumor ablation
- Pre-operative tumor embolization
- Denver shunt placement
- Pleurex catheter and tunneled peritoneal catheter placement
- Epidural steroid
- Celiac plexus blocks
- Facet injection and joint injection
- Spinal nerve block
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty
- Joint aspiration and injections
- IVC filter placement and retrieval
- Deep vein thrombolysis (DVT) – dissolving clots in veins
- Varicose veins: endovenous laser ablation treatment (EVLT) and sclerotherapy
- Pulmonary embolism thrombolysis
- Venogram, venoplasty and stenting
- Adrenal vein sampling for adrenal adenomas in hypertension
- PICC line placement
- Tunneled catheters like Hickman, Broviac, powerline and phresis catheters
- Foreign body retrieval of broken wires and catheters inside body
- Adrenal vein sampling for adrenal adenomas in hypertension
- Uterine fibroid embolization
- Pelvic pain (chronic pelvic congestion syndrome)
- Pelvic venous congestion syndrome
- Transvaginal methotrexate injection for ectopic pregnancy
- Transvaginal cyst aspiration
- Fallopian tube canalization
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Pre-op embolization for accreta and percreta
- Vascular disease
Institutional Biosafety Committee
Find and download minutes from SSM Health Saint Louis University Institutional Biosafety Committee meetings: