Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
2401 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO 64108
816-234-3000
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. Child magazine ranked Children's Mercy as one of the 10 best children's hospitals in America in 2003, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center has awarded Children's Mercy its rare Magnet designation for the high quality of patient care.
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
Children's Mercy is the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the region and one of the three busiest neonatal/pediatric transport programs in the nation. It has a total of 241 beds, with 40 percent of the inpatient beds devoted to critical care.
The hospital provides treatments, tests and surgeries rarely found outside large university medical centers. The Children's Mercy system includes the main hospital and outpatient center on Hospital Hill; Children's Mercy South (short-stay inpatient unit, same-day surgery, urgent care center and specialty clinics) in Overland Park, KS; five primary care clinics in inner city locations; 20 outreach specialty clinics throughout the region; and a home health program. The Children's Mercy research program is nationally recognized, particularly in the fields of clinical pharmacology, genetics, and neonatology.
Children's Mercy has programs in child advocacy, community violence prevention, managed care, inpatient hospitalists, behavioral and developmental pediatrics, clinical pharmacology (with its own clinical research unit), molecular genetics, alternative medicine, international pediatrics and other non-traditional programs that are emerging in importance.
Hospital investigators are involved in a dramatic research vision that includes laboratory research in genetics, cancer, neonatology, immunology and nursing. The hospital is one of seven National Institutes of Health-funded Pediatric Pharmacology Research Units in the country studying the effects of pharmaceuticals on children.
Children's Mercy Hospital delivers a wide array of pediatric programs outside its own walls through Children's Mercy South, a pediatric inpatient, outpatient, surgical, urgent care facility in Overland Park, Kansas, and outreach clinics throughout Missouri and Kansas. The Children's Mercy Hospital system offers one of the largest pediatric outpatient centers in the country.