Based in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Saint Francis Healthcare System offers services to more than 650,000 people in a five-state region through Saint Francis Medical Center, a 280-bed nonprofit tertiary care institution, and Saint Francis Health Development Services Corporation, a for-profit healthcare services company.
The Catholic-based Saint Francis Healthcare System has evolved in the 21st century from a local community medical center to the regional tertiary healthcare leader in the five-state region due to the tremendous efforts of a visionary administrative team, talented group of managers and exceptional work force, all focused on providing the highest quality of care to patients and support to family members.
Saint Francis Health Development Services Corporation
As the for-profit arm of Saint Francis Healthcare System, Saint Francis Health Development Services Corporation includes three entities:
Cape Radiation Oncology offers advanced radiation oncology services to cancer patients throughout the region. With an experienced staff that includes two radiation oncologists, radiation therapists and an oncology nurse, Cape Radiation Oncology treats numerous cancer-related conditions, including:
- Brain tumors
- Breast cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Gynecologic cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Lung cancer
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Prostate cancer
- Skin cancer
Cape Radiation Oncology uses sophisticated technology to treat cancer patients, including various forms external beam radiation therapy, such as:
- 3-D conformal radiation therapy
- Electronic brachytherapy
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy
Cape Radiation Oncology is a member of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), a multi-institutional research organization funded by the National Cancer Institute. With decades of clinical trial experience, RTOG is spearheading more than 40 active studies involving radiation therapy.
Saint Francis Medical Center also offers walk-in urgent care services through Immediate Convenient Care, located at 1702 N. Kingshighway, Open seven days a week, Immediate Convenient Care is dedicated to providing high quality care for your non-life-threatening, urgent medical illnesses and injuries.
Immediate Convenient Care offers complete family medical care and occupational services, including:
- Diagnostic, Services: Lab, X-Ray and EKG
- Occupational Medicine Services: Urine Drug Screen, Breath Alcohol Testing, D.O.T. and Work Physicals, Pulmonary Function Testing & Treatment of Employee Injury
- Physical Examinations for school, sports, camp and work
- Fracture Treatment and Minor Laceration Repair
- Minor Emergency Care
- Flu and Pneumonia Vaccinations
- DNA and Paternity Testing
Saint Francis Healthcare System has entered into a joint venture with Landmark Holdings of Missouri, LLC to bring long-term acute care to the residents of the region. Accredited by The Joint Commission, Landmark Hospital of Cape Girardeau is a 30-bed, fully licensed critical care hospital caring for patients with catastrophic and/or chronic medically complex conditions requiring a hospital stay of 25 days or longer.
As the only facility of its kind between St. Louis and Memphis, Landmark Hospital specializes in programs that use aggressive treatment protocols designed to meet each patient’s complex medical needs. Landmark Hospital complies with all Missouri state licensure requirements and Medicare Conditions of Participation regulations.
Poplar Bluff Medical Partners is a physician practice dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare in the Poplar Bluff community.
The complex includes a diagnostic imaging center, which offers:
- The area’s only open MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner
- CT (computerized tomography), ultrasound, X-ray, nuclear medicine and a P.E.T. (positron emission tomography) scanner
- The area’s only mobile mammography van, which provides advanced diagnostics, education and risk assessment
Poplar Bluff Medical Partners also is home to The Surgery Center of Poplar Bluff, which complements the diagnostic imaging center. It includes:
- Radiation therapy
- Rehabilitation care
- Durable medical equipment
- A medical office building
Focused primarily on outpatient care, the medical complex enables patients to remain near their homes and families while receiving care and allows Poplar Bluff Medical Partners a closer working relationship with Saint Francis for tertiary care services. Our campus offers a broad range of services, including:
- Urgent Care
- The Surgery Center
- Poplar Bluff Medical Partners Imaging Center
- Kramer Family Vision
- Southern Missouri Sleep Center
- Physicians Park Pharmacy
- Physicians Park Lab
- Coppertop Foot & Ankle
- Poplar Bluff Medical Partners Specialty Clinic
- Missouri Highlands Health Care
- Ozark OB/GYN
- Physicians Park Primary Care
- Leading-edge Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine
- Physical Therapy
- General Surgery
- Ear, Nose and Throat