Children's Mercy Hospital

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Children's Mercy Kansas City
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Adele Hall Campus
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Geography
Location2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Coordinates 39°05′06″N94°34′48″W / 39.085°N 94.580°W / 39.085; -94.580
Organization
Care system Private
Funding Non-profit hospital
Type Specialized
Affiliated university University of Kansas
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Services
Emergency department Yes (Adele Hall Campus and Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas) [1]
Beds390
Helipad Yes (two at Adele Hall Campus and one at Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas)
History
Opened1897
Links
Website www.childrensmercy.org
Lists Hospitals in Missouri

Children's Mercy Kansas City is a 390-bed [2] medical center in Kansas City, Missouri providing care for pediatric patients. The hospital's primary service area covers a 150-county area in Missouri and Kansas. Children's Mercy received national recognition from U.S. News & World Report in 11 pediatric specialties. [3] The hospital was the first in Missouri and Kansas to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Services from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has been re-designated five times. [4]

Contents

Children's Mercy Adele Hall Campus is the primary location for Children's Mercy Kansas City. The hospital was founded in 1897 by two sisters, a surgeon and a dentist. The hospital quickly grew and expanded its services to all children in the region. In fiscal year 2023, the hospital provided more than $155 million in uncompensated care, including charity care, unreimbursed Medicaid (and other means-tested government programs), and subsidized health services. [5]

History

Berry sisters

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Alice Berry Graham

Katharine and Alice Berry came to Kansas City from Wisconsin in 1893. They put each other through school; Katharine being the first to get her medical degree while Alice worked as a schoolteacher, and then obtained her dentist degree—both male-only professions during the 19th century. The women were excluded from professional medical groups because of their gender, and their entrepreneurial spirit was discouraged. But the two persevered and, due to their widowed status, they were permitted to control their own finances, which they poured into their medical work with children. [6]

Children's Mercy Hospital was founded in 1897 when Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, now a surgeon, and her sister Dr. Alice Berry Graham, a dentist, found a crippled, malnourished girl abandoned in the streets of Kansas City, Missouri and treated and cared for her at a rented bed in a hospital. Since no hospital in the city allowed a female physician on the staff, the sisters continued treating patients by renting beds in a small hospital. [7]

The beds soon became known as the "Mercy Bed". The sisters formed the Free Bed Fund Association for Crippled, Deformed, and Ruptured Children and in 1901, changing it to The Children's Mercy Hospital in 1919. [8]

At first, the public ridiculed the sisters' work, especially the Berry sisters' belief of women-only staffers. Some people believed women should work in the home and not be physicians. But as societal norms changed, the ridicule lessened and public opinion allowed the hospital to grow.

The sisters bought a home in 1903 to work as a hospital, sheltering children. The sisters and few staff members begged for supplies, volunteers, and monetary support. Dr. Kate (Katharine Richardson) would keep a sign near the street, letting the public know the needs of the hospital, such as new sheets, pillow cases, bath towels and canned food. [9]

In 1915, construction on what would be the first official hospital began at Independence Avenue. The hospital stayed on the avenue until 1970, when it moved to its current location on Hospital Hill.

When Hurricane Katrina first hit New Orleans in August 2005, Children's Mercy (along with other hospitals) sent helicopters to Tulane Medical Center, Ochsner, and CHNOLA in order to help evacuate pediatric patients from the hospital. [10] [11] [12] Along with helicopters, CMH sent two C-130s to aid in large scale evacuation of pediatric patients from New Orleans. [13]

Timeline

Significant events in the hospital's history include: [14]

Locations

Children's Mercy has multiple sites of care, including one hospital in Overland Park, Kansas and another in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

Research

The research program at the Children's Mercy Research Institute features 375,000 square-feet of dedicated clinical research space [16] and over 100 physicians and scientists actively participating in research studies.

It is one of the 10 stakeholder institutions in the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute, which also includes the University of Kansas, MRI Global, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Stowers Institute. [17]

The hospital's research is focused on five areas of emphasis:

The hospital is one of 13 designated Pediatric Pharmacology Research Units. [18] Hospital clinical pharmacologists work closely with the Pediatric Trials Network, researching and developing accurate drug doses and devices for children.

In 2012, the hospital's Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine developed the rapid whole genome sequencing approach.

Genomic Answers for Kids (GA4K), which began in 2019, is the pediatric data repository to facilitate the search for answers and novel treatments for these conditions. In 2022, GA4K reported having identified 1,000 rare diagnoses and has enrolled more than 10,000 participants to date into GA4K.

Clinical care

Children's Mercy Hospital is located on the Children's Mercy Adele Hall campus. Hospital services include a Level 1 Children's Surgery Center; a Level 1 Trauma Center; a Level IV Intensive Care Nursery; heart, liver, kidney, blood and marrow transplant programs; and more than 40 pediatric subspecialty clinics.

Academics

Children's Mercy is an Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education Institutional Sponsor and focuses on the development of programs based on the ACGME core competencies and the acquisition of clinical skills.

Children's Mercy is academically affiliated with both the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and the University of Kansas and offers a pediatric residency program that annually accepts 27 categorical pediatric residents, one preliminary resident, three combined pediatrics/neurology residents and six internal medicine/pediatrics residents. [19] Children's Mercy also offers 42 subspecialty fellowship programs to train the next generation of pediatric subspecialists. [20]

In addition, Children's Mercy hosts over 600 residents from partnering institutions in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Several hundred health care students rotate through Children's Mercy annually.

Rankings and performance

Children’s Mercy Kansas City is recognized as one of the nation’s top pediatric hospitals, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 “Best Children’s Hospitals” report, ranking number one in Missouri, for the second year in a row. For the first time in more than a decade, this year’s rankings included a new specialty – Pediatric and Adolescent Behavioral Health. In years past, the hospital had consecutively been nationally ranked in at least 10 of the 10 pediatric specialty areas. This year, Children’s Mercy achieved a new milestone, ranking in all 11 of the 11 pediatric specialties: [3]

The highest ranking is nephrology at #9. [3]

The hospital has been designated a "Magnet Recognized" center by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Children's Mercy earned "LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader" designation in 2022 by receiving a top score of 100 on Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation's Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). [22]

Children's Mercy earned Forbes' "America's Best-In-State Employers Missouri" designation in 2024 by ranking among the final list of employers that received the most recommendations. [23]

Children's Mercy earned the 2022-2023 Platinum Level Healthy KC Certified from the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. [24]

Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers.

Together, we transform the health, wellbeing and potential of children, with unwavering compassion for those most vulnerable.

Naming rights

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On November 19, 2015, Children's Mercy announced a ten-year partnership with Sporting Kansas City. The deal includes Children's Mercy getting the naming rights to the team's stadium, now named Children's Mercy Park, as well as the team's training center and the championship field and training center at Swope Soccer Village. The partnership focuses on strengthening the community by improving access to pediatric-trained sports medicine, protecting youth athletes and providing education to coaches and parents. In 2017, the hospital opened a Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center at the United States Soccer Federation National Training Center, in Kansas. [25] [26]

Controversy

In March 2022, Missouri senator Mike Cierpiot accused Children's Mercy of abusing child welfare services to remove children from the parents' home. [27]

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