Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City

Wornall Road
at Forty Fourth
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
816-932-2047

Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City combines a tradition of excellence in medical education with its long-standing history of providing the highest quality health care to patients in Kansas City and the surrounding area. For more than 110 years, Saint Luke's Hospital has served the health care needs of a growing Kansas City and its surrounding area. A not-for-profit hospital, Saint Luke's is a highly respected tertiary referral care center for patients in a six-state region.

In response to changing health care needs, Saint Luke’s Hospital has established some of the finest specialized clinical services and support programs in the Kansas City metropolitan area. In recognition of the quality of these programs and services, Saint Luke’s was awarded the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for 2003.

Some of these services include:

• Level I (highest designation) Trauma Center
  
• Level III (highest designation) Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery
  
• Comprehensive cardiac treatment in the Mid America Heart Institute
  
• Center for women and children encompassing all aspects of gynecology, child birth, perinatal care and infertility
  
• Ambulatory Surgery Center
  
• Cancer Center
  
• State-designated 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
  
• Mid America Brain and Stroke Institute

An active center for medical education and research with programs in undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education, Saint Luke's has been a primary teaching hospital of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine since 1989.

Backed by a network of more than 550 skilled physicians representing more than 56 medical specialties, Saint Luke's has established some of the finest specialized clinical services and support programs in the metropolitan area.

For instance: The region's premier cardiac center, the Mid America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's Hospital, is world renowned for its work in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. The institute performs more than 2,000 coronary balloon angioplasties, 6,000 cardiovascular lab procedures and 950 open-heart surgeries a year and supports an active heart transplantation program.

Saint Luke's offers a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care nursery, the highest designations. Saint Luke's is also recognized for its ambulatory surgery center, cancer center, a 15-bed dedicated stroke center, a state designated regional arthritis center, sleep lab, sexual assault treatment center, developmental preschool program offering speech, physical and occupational therapy for developmentally delayed children, and a kidney dialysis/transplant center.