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Pet parents already know it: Our fur- and feather-babies are pretty amazing. Dogs and cats, guinea pigs, birds and more bring joy, laughter and unconditional love to our lives. But can a pet keep you healthy?

Your body is more complicated than a viral challenge—but your ability to move well may say more about your health than the number of candles on your birthday cake.

Explore how to thrive on a vegan diet. Learn about essential nutrients, protein sources and meal planning to help meet your nutritional needs through plant-based foods.

For more than a decade, Tim Johnson, 66, has lived with a chronic aortic dissection, a serious condition where the inner layer of the aorta tears, allowing blood to flow between the layers of the aortic wall.

Every day for the next five years, 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65, and by 2030, 18 percent of the U.S.

Our heart team answers all of your questions, translates medical terminology into language you can understand and supports you in choosing the most appropriate care for you.

She dreaded the thought of spending her entire career at one hospital. So after 10 months of working as a nurse in Kearney, Nebraska, Pennie Pavlisin, MS, RN-BC, joined the Air Force.

BJC HealthCare’s Center for Clinical Excellence assists BJC to deliver better and safer health care for its patients. Since the 1990s, the Center has embodied BJC’s commitment to make medicine better through evidence-based clinical quality interventions, innovations and project and change management. The Center is comprised of a diverse group of health care and non-health care professionals – nurses, epidemiologists, physicians, analysts, and engineers – who work collaboratively to achieve the Center’s mission to be the trusted advisers to all of BJC’s health care facilities.

Meet the expert leaders driving BJC HealthCare’s patient-centered care and clinical excellence. Learn more about our commitment to world-class health outcomes.