{"id":6723,"date":"2026-11-12T01:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/st-lukes-hospital-plans-to-join-bjc-health\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T01:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:32:51","slug":"st-lukes-hospital-plans-to-join-bjc-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/st-lukes-hospital-plans-to-join-bjc-health\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Luke\u2019s Hospital Plans to Join BJC Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> CHESTERFIELD, MO \u2013 November 12, 2026 (STL.News) St. Luke\u2019s Hospital \u2013 BJC Health \u2013 One of the St. Louis region\u2019s oldest independent healthcare institutions is preparing for a potentially historic change after St. Luke\u2019s Hospital in Chesterfield and BJC Health announced that they have signed a letter of intent for St. Luke\u2019s to join the BJC healthcare system. The announcement, made Wednesday, November 11, 2026, could reshape healthcare delivery in West St. Louis County and strengthen BJC\u2019s position as one of the Midwest\u2019s largest healthcare organizations. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/sz-aaN-Gq88\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St. Luke\u2019s signs letter of intent to join BJC Health\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sz-aaN-Gq88?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> Play St. Luke\u2019s, an independent nonprofit healthcare system established in 1866, operates<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-lukes-hospital-plans-to-join-bjc-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHESTERFIELD, MO \u2013 November 12, 2026 (STL.News) St. Luke\u2019s Hospital \u2013 BJC Health \u2013 One of the St. Louis region\u2019s oldest independent healthcare institutions is preparing for a potentially historic change after St. Luke\u2019s Hospital in Chesterfield and BJC Health&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}