Downtown Urgent Care (DUC) opened its doors in early 2009, at The Truman Building in the heart of Saint Louis, at 916 Olive Street, 4 blocks south of the Dome (Rams Football) and Americas Center, 4 blocks north of the Ballpark, (Cardinals Baseball) 4 blocks east of the Scottrade Center (Blues Hockey), and 7 blocks west of the Gateway Arch. Serving the Downtown community and metropolitan Saint Louis' need for walk-in / urgent care, DUC was created with the aim of providing the highest quality urgent medical care in a professional, friendly and time-efficient manner. DUC works with patients' primary care physicians, specialists and the local emergency rooms to ensure patients receive top quality care and follow-up. An increasing percentage of our patient visits are from returning patients and patient recommendations, which we hope is testament to the quality, convenience and affordability of the urgent care service we provide.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is an independent Catholic church building located in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Formerly a parish belonging to the Catholic Church, it was established in 1880 to serve the Polish community in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. It is considered to be the best example of the opulent Polish Cathedral style of architecture west of the Mississippi River.The church is notable for a highly publicized dispute over control of the parish and its assets between the church's lay board of directors and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. In December 2005, Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke declared the parish's board members and its priest, Marek Bozek, excommunicated and announced his intention to disband the parish with the likelihood that the premises would be sold. The parish responded by holding a Christmas Eve Mass attended by 1,500-2,000 people. The church and the Archdiocese settled their legal dispute in 2013.The parish continues to be maintained and managed by its parishioners as a not-for-profit corporation, calling itself "Catholic", but unaffiliated with the Catholic Church.