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Baby Nursing Stations Installed at Enterprise Center

A partnership between Missouri Baptist Medical Center and the St. Louis Blues provides a new option to nursing mothers.

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Tina, a MoBap cardiac surgery patient, has always been active and enjoys walking, biking and being outdoors.

Repairing a Broken Heart: A New Diagnosis Helps Heart Pump at Peak Efficiency

Although she had lived with a heart condition her entire life, Tina Lybarger Ledyard knew a few months ago that something just wasn’t right. As a nurse and a stroke network consultant, Tina noticed she was feeling more fatigued than usual. Read more here about her diagnosis and how she has renewed energy after heart surgery.

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Synchronizing Heart Care Offers Patient a New Lease on Life

Nathaniel (Nate) Rentz, 63, is alive today thanks to the expertise and coordinated care of medical teams at Progress West Hospital and the advanced cardiac care team at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.

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Rural Outreach Brings Clinical Trials to Patients

Patients like Mary Elise, a retired teacher in Ste. Genevieve, can take part in advanced clinical research thanks to the Missouri Baptist Cancer Center involvement with the Heartland Cancer Research NCORP. As part of the TAILORx trial, Mary Elise help researchers studying the effects of chemotherapy on early-state cancer.

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Improving Quality of Life through Hip Surgery

William Decker didn’t let a hip surgery slow him down for long. As an active 73-year-old golfer and grandfather, Decker was relieved to learn he could have hip surgery using the newer anterior approach. Dr. Christopher Mudd at MoBap is one of the limited number of orthopedic surgeons trained to perform this procedure. To learn more, click here.

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Professional Practice Model

Nursing at MoBap

The Missouri Baptist Medical Center Nursing Professional Practice Model is a framework for all professional registered nurses (RNs) employed at Missouri Baptist. This professional model will serve to facilitate excellence in outcomes by providing essential elements that guide decisions and ensure consistency in nursing practice throughout all settings. 

The model outlines a central focus of patient and family-centered care as an approach to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care that is grounded in mutually beneficial partnerships among health care providers, patients and families.

Outer Green Circle: Professional nursing practice and care of the patient and family optimally occurs in an environment of trust, collaboration, shared leadership and professional development. 

Inner Green Circle: Nursing practice at Missouri Baptist is based on science, including evidence-based practice, research, process improvement and innovation. 

Inner Blue Circle: Our practice is artfully executed through a caring, holistic approach to care, clinical expertise and patient/family advocacy. By doing so, nurses at Missouri Baptist facilitate an extraordinary patient experience resulting in optimal patient outcomes.

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