Cape Girardeau

Students training at the Cape Girardeau site will work mainly with two local hospitals: Saint Francis Medical Center and SoutheastHEALTH. Some rotations are also done at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, MO.

Saint Francis Medical Center is a 280-bed facility serving more than 650,000 people throughout Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Their major service lines, which have received national recognition, include the Neurosciences Institute; Orthopedic Institute; Family BirthPlace, featuring the region’s first Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Heart Hospital; Level III Emergency and Trauma Center with Convenient Care; Cancer Institute; and Fitness Plus.They recently completed the construction of a 208,000-square-foot combined Heart Hospital and Cancer Institute, where patients have access to advanced treatments and technology – under one convenient roof. Saint Francis Medical Center has been named one of the top 100 “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare magazine for the fifth consecutive year – an honor no other employer/hospital in Missouri has achieved. The prestigious program is open to companies across the healthcare industry – hospitals, service companies, suppliers, payors and others – with at least 25 employees.

SoutheastHEALTH is a far-reaching network of providers and facilities including Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo., which provides a regional system of healthcare services throughout a multi-state region. SoutheastHEALTH serves patients in southeast Missouri, as well as residents in parts of southern Illinois, western Kentucky and northern Arkansas. SoutheastHEALTH has multiple campuses and facilities, such as HealthPoint Fitness in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, Southeast Home Health, Southeast Hospice and Southeast Endocrinology at Doctors’ Park, and Southeast Medical Plaza with locations on Broadway and Mount Auburn Road. In February 2011, the new Southeast Cancer Center, the largest construction project in the health system’s history, opened on SoutheastHEALTH’s West Campus. In addition, SoutheastHEALTH operates satellite outpatient Cardiac Rehab services in Sikeston and Dexter, Mo., and the SoutheastHEALTH Center of Ripley County in Doniphan, Mo., and its associated family clinic. Southeast’s specialized centers of care include: Southeast Heart Center, Southeast Cancer Center, Southeast Brain and Spine Center, Center for Women and Children Services, Emergency Services, Orthopedics and Joint Replacement Center. Each year, tens of thousands of patients see the difference at SoutheastHEALTH in technology, services and care.

Missouri Delta Medical Center is a popular site for surgery rotations. While general surgery rotations in Cape Girardeau are great general surgery rotations, they are just that…general surgery. Mostly gall bladder, appendectomies and other general surgeries. Students who complete their general surgery rotations at Missouri Delta partake in a variety of surgeries including but not limited to ENT, Cardio, and Ortho.  To be able to participate in these surgeries in Cape Girardeau, you must do them as surgery electives during your fourth year and are not able to do them during your 3rd year.

Students with ties to the region and a strong interest may contact the site coordinator, Ashley Showalter, to apply Cape Girardeau or Sikeston as their core site.