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Children's Mercy Hospital |
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2401 Gillham Road |
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Kansas City |
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Missouri |
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USA |
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64108 9898 |
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816 234 3000 |
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Specialization Of Children's Mercy Hospital
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About Children's Mercy Hospital
** About Us **
Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is a comprehensive pediatric medical center which is the only free-standing children's hospital between St. Louis and Denver. We are consistently ranked among the leading children's hospitals in the nation, and we were the first hospital in Missouri or Kansas to receive the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in patient care from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. We provide state-of-the-art care for children from birth to age 18 who come to us from throughout Missouri and Kansas and beyond. In addition to the clinical expertise provided by our pediatric specialists, Children's Mercy is also a leader in providing pediatric medical education to the physicians and nurses of the future and in conducting cutting-edge pediatric medical research to discover the treatments and cures of tomorrow. And Children's Mercy is nationally recognized for our innovation in creating a family-centered environment that is focused on the unique needs of hospitalized children and their families.
There are a million reasons to choose Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics - but really, all you need is one. When it's your child, it has to be Children's Mercy.
** Mission **
Children's Mercy Hospital provides the highest level of medical care, technology, services, equipment and facilities in promoting the health and well-being of children in the region, from birth through adolescence. Patients and their families are treated with compassion in a family-centered environment that recognizes their physical, emotional, financial, social and spiritual needs. The comprehensive health care environment provided by the hospital includes clinical services, research and teaching efforts which are designed to serve today's and tomorrow's children and the community in which they live.
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History Of Children's Mercy Hospital
** History **
Children's Mercy begins with two compassionate sisters
The history of Children's Mercy Hospital can be traced to June, 1897, and two sisters, Dr. Alice Berry Graham, a dentist, and Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, a physician.
A saloon keeper from the Kansas City Stockyards district had heard of the sisters' reputation for helping poor, sick children and he told Dr. Graham of a woman he'd seen in the streets trying to give away her crippled 5-year-old daughter.
Drs. Graham and Richardson found the girl abandoned, undernourished and poorly clothed. They arranged a bed for her at a small hospital on 15th and Cleveland in downtown Kansas City on June 24, 1897. The doctors established the Free Bed Fund Association and through painstaking care, they restored life to the orphaned child's crippled legs. With surgery and therapy, she walked again.
Their act of compassion and medical expertise was the beginning of what would become The Children's Mercy Hospital.
Today, the Children's Mercy health care system includes the state-of-the-art, 314-bed hospital at 2401 Gillham Road in Kansas City, bustling outpatient clinics in midtown and in suburban Johnson County, Kan., and outreach clinics in outlying communities. Children and families from six states are regularly served by the hospital, which sees patients living from coast to coast and even overseas.
Significant dates in Children's Mercy's history:
1897: Free Bed Fund Association of Sick, Crippled, Deformed and Ruptured Children opened its doors with one bed on June 24.
1901: Central Governing Board of the Free Bed Fund approves the Mercy name.
1904: Dr. Robert Schauffler was the first male physician allowed to practice at the hospital. Officially called Mercy Hospital and opens with five beds at 414 Highland Avenue. Only offered maternity and pediatric services. Grew to 27 beds by 1906.
1913: Alice Berry Graham dies.
1914: Hospital is deeded two acres of land at Independence and Woodland avenues for new facility.
1916: Children's Mercy Hospital opens at Independence and Woodland on Nov. 27. 59 patients moved from Highland location. $375,000 raised between 1915-1916 to construct building. Serves as home for Children's Mercy until 1970.
1917: The Kansas City Board of Education began supporting a teaching staff so patients requiring a prolonged stay at the hospital could continue their education. A bedside or classroom teacher has been provided during the school year ever since.
1922: Children's Mercy celebrates its 25th anniversary.
1933: Katharine Berry Richardson dies.
1933: Elizabeth Martin, RN, becomes supervisor of the hospital and oversees its operations for the next 30 years.
1948: Hospital dismantles isolation wards.
1956: Dr. Wayne Hart begins work as hospital's first medical director, the only full-time physician practicing at Children's Mercy. His first assignment was to establish a residency program with the University of Kansas.
1964: An elementary school at 351 South Park is dedicated to the memory of co-founder Katharine Berry Richardson.
1968: Groundbreaking for the hospital at its current location, 2401 Gillham Road, on Hospital Hill.
1970: Hospital staff moves 39 children to the hospital's Gillham location on Dec. 17.
1975: Adolescent Medicine Clinic opens to serve the unique medical and psychosocial needs of pre-teen and teen-age patients.
1985: The Pediatric Care Center moves to the Diagnostic and Treatment Center adjacent to the hospital. It is the first clinic to move off-site, signaling the need for more room. Today, the PCC is back on Hospital Hill and the Adolescent Clinic is at 46th and Paseo.
1987: The first pedicatric specialty clinics open in Overland Park, Kan., to meet the needs of the growing population in the southern part of the metropolitan area. Additional clinics are added and an outpatient surgery center also opens in Johnson County before the establishment of Children's Mercy South ten years later.
1992: Ground broken for expansion of the Children's Mercy system with the addition of an outpatient center and a patient tower at the Hospital Hill location. Centennial Campaign fund-raising effort begins: $68 million raised in two years.
1993: Based on the knowledge that many children get well faster at home, Children's Mercy Home Care begins to provide care for children in the comfort of their homes.
1995: Five-story Hall Family Outpatient Center opens with 21 pediatric specialty clinics; has about 150,000 patient visits in first year. Children's Mercy purchases land in Overland Park for the development of Children's Mercy South, a smaller version of the existing hospital without intensive care units or an emergency room.
1996: Seven-story Herman and Helen Sutherland Outpatient Tower opens, allowing the hospital to enhance the patient- and family-friendly environment of the hospital, providing parent beds in rooms and a more comfortable atmosphere.
1996: Established Family Health Partners, a non-profit HMO providing health care services to the medically vulnerable and uninsured through the State of Missouri's MC+ program.
1997: A year-long centennial celebration is underway. Children's Mercy named one of the top children's hospitals in the country by Child magazine. Children's Mercy South opens in Overland Park in October.
1999: Children's Mercy purchases a primary care pediatric practice in Wyandotte County and establishes the Parallel Parkway Clinic to meet the needs of an under-served area of Kansas City, Kan. Additional doctors and staff are added and the practice continues to grow, eventually becoming Children's Mercy West in 2007.
2000: Staff and patients move into the Paul and Betty Henson Patient Tower, a complement to the Sutherland Tower. Combined, the towers provide updated, private rooms to most Children's Mercy patients and families, as well as other features.
2001: The public portion of a $50 million fund-raising drive begins to support the Children's Mercy Research Vision, a plan to improve the lives of children through discoveries from world-class researchers working at Children's Mercy.
2003: Named one of the Top 10 Children's Hospitals in America by Child magazine
2003: Awarded Magnet designation for nursing excellence, the first hospital in Missouri or Kansas and just the third children's hospital nationwide to achieve this honor from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
2003: In response to requests by community pediatricians and residents, work begins in Children's Mercy Northland, an urgent care center and specialty clinic in the north part of the metropolitan area.
2003: Pediatric Research Center opens in 32,000 square feet on top two floors of the new Clinic and Research Building on Hospital Hill.
2004: Primary Care Center opens in new Clinic and Research Building. This combines primary care clinics that had previously operated on Main Street and Paseo Boulevard. Teen Clinic (formerly Adolescent Clinic) moves to Paseo location.
2007: Children's Mercy West, a primary care clinic, opens in Wyandotte County as the new location for the hospital's Parallel Parkway Clinic.
2007: Children's Mercy announces a comprehensive, 15-year expansion plan to add inpatient beds, outpatient clinic space, research labs and more, with a price tag that could approach $800 million.
2008: Children's Mercy becomes the first hospital in Missouri or Kansas to receive Magnet redesignation.
2008: Dr. Stephen Spielberg, an internationally-known pediatrician and researcher, joins the Children's Mercy staff as director of the hospital's new Center for Personalized Medicine and Therapeutic Innovation.
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