What Memorial Hospital does

Memorial Hospital operates two acute-care hospitals — Memorial Hospital in Belleville (4500 Memorial Drive, founded 1958) and Memorial Hospital in Shiloh (1404 Cross St.) — in the Illinois portion of the St. Louis metropolitan area, delivering a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient services including emergency care, primary care, imaging, laboratory, convenient care, virtual care, and Washington University-affiliated pediatric after-hours coverage. Specialty service lines span cancer care, diabetes and endocrinology, heart and vascular, neurosciences, orthopedics, pediatrics, transplant, and women's health. The underlying technology stack is a BJC HealthCare-integrated healthcare information management system with the MyChart patient portal for electronic health records, scheduling, and virtual visits; no proprietary AI, no published APIs, and no mobile applications are disclosed.

The hospital is a facility-level component of BJC HealthCare, a large nonprofit health system headquartered at 4901 Forest Park Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, with no independent funding, no M&A activity, and no separate public listing. Memorial does not operate as an independent commercial entity — it functions as a community-access front door and referral funnel into the broader BJC delivery network, including Washington University specialists for higher-acuity cases. Revenue mechanics are driven by fee-for-service billing through insurance carriers, Medicare, and Medicaid, supplemented by financial assistance programs; no enterprise customers, employer contracts, or payor concentration are disclosed, and the addressable customer base is the general patient population across the Belleville and Shiloh catchment. The go-to-market motion is enterprise-style field sales in the sense that services are delivered through owned facilities rather than a sales force, with patient acquisition driven by primary care referrals, emergency department access, and regional brand recognition rather than marketing-driven demand generation.

Name

Memorial Hospital

Legal name

BJC HealthCare

Website

https://memhosp.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1958

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Memorial Hospital operates two acute-care hospitals in Belleville and Shiloh, Illinois, as part of the BJC HealthCare nonprofit system, delivering emergency, primary, specialty, and virtual care services to the Illinois side of the St. Louis metro area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Acute Care Hospital Services

NAICS

Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (622310), Outpatient Care Centers (6214), All Other Outpatient Care Centers (621498)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

Ambulatory Cardiology Diagnostic & Procedure Centers (Non-hospital-based) (HLAFABAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Specialty Palliative Care (e.g., oncology, CHF/COPD, dementia) (HLADAHAJ)

Keywords

• Acute care hospital
• Emergency medical services
• Specialty healthcare services
• Outpatient diagnostic imaging
• Primary and specialty care

Headquarters

HQ city

Belleville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Patient Care Services: Revenue generated from inpatient and outpatient medical services including emergency care, primary care, specialty care, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, and same-day care facilities. Services billed through insurance providers, Medicare/Medicaid, and direct patient payment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Memorial Hospital operates as part of the BJC Health system and delivers comprehensive acute care, emergency, primary care, specialty care, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, and same-day care services across two hospital campuses in Belleville and Shiloh, Illinois. The facilities provide inpatient and outpatient care across departments such as Cancer Care, Heart & Vascular, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Transplant, and Women's Health, with patient access supported through a MyChart portal and virtual care options.

Product overview

Memorial Hospitals, part of the BJC Health system, operates as a network of hospital facilities offering comprehensive healthcare services. The network includes two hospital locations (Belleville and Shiloh) providing a broad range of medical services including emergency care, primary care, imaging services, virtual care, and same-day convenient care. The hospitals offer specialized centers covering Cancer Care, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Heart & Vascular, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Transplant, and Women's Health. Services are delivered through skilled providers and staff, with additional features such as MyChart patient portal for accessing medical records and scheduling appointments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Memorial Hospital in Belleville

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BJC HealthcoreOthersMemorial Hospitals operate as part of the BJC Health system, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the United States. BJC provides administrative support, shared services, and integration with a comprehensive network of hospitals, outpatient facilities, and physician practices across the St. Louis region and beyond.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital: St. Louis-area hospital within SSM Health, a large multi-state Catholic nonprofit health system. Provides comparable acute-care and specialty services with broader geographic reach.
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital: Academic medical center and BJC HealthCare flagship in St. Louis, affiliated with Washington University. Provides the tertiary referral backbone of the BJC system that Memorial connects into; offers overlapping specialty services at significantly larger scale.
• OSF HealthCare: Large Catholic nonprofit health system headquartered in Peoria, IL, with hospitals across Illinois and Michigan. Comparable to BJC in scale and mission, operating overlapping acute-care and specialty services in adjacent Illinois markets.
• Carle Health: Nonprofit regional health system based in Urbana, IL, with hospitals and specialty services across central Illinois. Comparable in scale and nonprofit structure, expanding specialty and outpatient capacity in Illinois.
• Missouri Baptist Medical Center: BJC HealthCare-affiliated acute-care hospital in Town & Country, MO. Sister facility within the same parent system, comparable in service mix and community-hospital positioning but operating in the western St. Louis suburb.
• Mercy Hospital St. Louis: Flagship of the Mercy Health system, a large multi-state Catholic nonprofit in Creve Coeur, MO. Offers overlapping acute-care and specialty services with significantly broader system scale and academic affiliations.

Regional players

• Touchette Regional Hospital: Smaller safety-net hospital in Cahokia, IL, serving the East St. Louis area. Competes with Memorial for lower-acuity and emergency volumes in the immediate southern Illinois catchment.

Direct peers

• HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital: Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) operates St. Elizabeth's Hospital in O'Fallon, IL — directly across the St. Louis metro from Memorial. It is a comparable acute-care community hospital competing for the same patient base in southern Illinois.
• Anderson Hospital: Independent community hospital in Maryville, IL, also part of the BJC HealthCare affiliate network and located minutes from Memorial's Shiloh campus. Closest geographic direct competitor with comparable service mix.
• St. Luke's Hospital: Independent, mid-size acute-care hospital in Chesterfield, MO. Comparable in size, service breadth, and community-hospital positioning to Memorial, competing in the western St. Louis metro.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/memhosp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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