Truman Medical Centers

Truman Medical Centers is comprised of two campuses — TMC Hospital Hill, a busy, urban hospital recognized for its broad range of acute and outpatient care, and TMC Lakewood, a community hospital providing comprehensive health care to a diverse patient population.

TMC Hospital Hill is a Level 1 Trauma Center that has the highest number of emergency visits — averaging more than 60,000 annually — of any hospital in the metropolitan area. TMC Lakewood, with 102 patient care beds and 212 long-term care beds in the Care Center, is the setting for the UMKC School of Medicine’s Department of Community and Family Medicine.

TMC Hospital Hill — 2301 Holmes Street, 816-404-1000. (Map)
TMC Lakewood — 7900 Lee’s Summit Road, 816-404-7000. (Map)
www.trumed.org

St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City

Saint Luke’s Health System of Kansas City for more than 125 years, has served the health care needs of a growing Kansas City.

Saint Luke’s has established specialized clinical services including: Level I Trauma Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery, Comprehensive cardiac treatment in the Mid America Heart Institute, Center for women and children, Ambulatory Surgery Center, Cancer Center, Regional Arthritis Center, Sexual Assault Treatment Center, Children’s S.P.O.T. (a developmental preschool speech and hearing program), Kidney and Heart Transplantation Program, Bone Marrow Transplant Center and the Mid America Brain and Stroke Institute.

4320 Wornall Road, 816-932-2000 (Map)
www.saintlukeshealthsystem.org

Children's Mercy Hospital

The Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics have been providing exclusive medical service to children from birth to 18 years of age for more than 100 years. Children’s Mercy Hospital today provides the highest level of medical care, technology, services, equipment and facilities all tailored to meet the intricate needs of it’s pediatric patients. Children’s Mercy is the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the region.

Physicians representing more than 40 pediatric specialties care for children who come from a 150-county region in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. The hospital is nationally recognized in: Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation, Nephrology, Neonatalogy and more.

2401 Gilham Road, 816-234-3000 (Map)
www.childrens-mercy.org

Center for Behavioral Medicine

Center for Behavioral Medicine is an agency for the Department of Mental Health located on Hospital Hill and provides comprehensive psychiatric care to patients from Kansas City and the seven surrounding counties. CBM serves as the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Department of Psychiatry, fulfilling academic and research needs.

CBM offers services in alcoholism, drug, family, group and individual counseling, crisis intervention, group psychiatric therapy, and suicide prevention as well as hospital inpatient care, mental health aftercare and psychiatric care. The hospital also offers treatment to mentally ill patients with substance abuse problems.

1000 East 24th Street, 816-512-7000 (Map)
http://dmh.mo.gov/cbm/

The Kansas City Veterans Administration Medical Center

The Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center (KC VAMC) is one of eight medical centers in VISN 15. The mission of the KC VAMC is to provide high quality, comprehensive primary and tertiary healthcare to veterans in our service area, and to provide selected specialty care services to referred veterans. KC VAMC also provides education and training to healthcare professionals and performs research that benefits veterans.

The KC VAMC offers residency training in all major medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. Associated Health Training is offered in nursing, psychology, audiology, social work, dietetics, pharmacy, chaplaincy, health care administration and optometry.

4801 Linwood Boulevard, 816-922-2122 (Map)
www.kansascity.va.gov

Research Medical Center

Research Medical Center was founded more than 120 years ago and today is one of the crown jewels of the HCA Midwest Health System, with a new lobby and admitting areas, a renovated and expanded Cancer Center and Women’s Care Unit, new private patient rooms, and an expanded emergency room.

The 22,000-square foot Cancer Center is a comfortable outpatient facility and a dedicated inpatient oncology unit. The Liver and Pancreas Institute is the first unit in the Midwest to provide specialized care to patients who suffer liver, pancreas and biliary cancers. The Transplant Institute has received national recognition for best outcomes in kidney-pancreas transplants.

2316 E. Meyer Blvd., 816-276-4000 (Map)
www.researchmedicalcenter.com