Health Care - Health Care And Wellness
When moving to a new city, even more important than locating the nearest ice-cream parlor is finding the closest hospital. In Kansas City, chances are you’ll have one practically in your backyard.
Even more good news is that many of our hospitals are nationally known for specialties like cardiac care, cancer diagnostics and treatment, and even kidney transplants. Chalk it up to the fact that Kansas City is home to three medical schools: the University of Kansas Hospital, known for its outstanding research programs; the University of Missouri–Kansas City, offering a unique six-year program combining B.A. and M.D. degrees; and the University of Health Sciences, with a focus on osteopathy. Practitioners of chiropractic have the highly respected Cleveland Chiropractic College. While we’re busy training the best physicians and health care workers in the world, they’re busy falling in love with this town. After graduation they tend to plant their comfortable white shoes right here.
We’re also making medical breakthroughs that can help eliminate disease, speed the recovery process, and improve the patient’s quality of life. For instance, our neurosurgeons were the first in the region to operate on tumors and lesions near the brainstem that were once thought to be inoperable. Heart surgeons performed the first endoscopic vein removal from the leg in the Midwest.
And our KU Hospital was one of the first hospitals to perform deep-brain stimulation surgery to help control tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease. It has performed more of these surgeries than any other hospital in the world.
Kansas City is fast becoming a world leader in the exciting field of life sciences with the opening of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. This $200 million facility is devoted to finding cures to gene-related diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. Find out more about this biomedical research center in this chapter’s Close-up.
As for immediate care, we’ll start our rounds by covering the area’s three largest health care organizations with multiple facilities and then follow up with individual medical centers and other health care providers. And we promise, no “cutting-edge” jokes.
All institutions are located in Kansas City, Missouri, unless otherwise noted.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Address: 4401 Wornall Rd.
2. Saint Luke’S Northland Hospital
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (816) 891-6000
Address: 5830 Northwest Barry Rd.
Description: One medical staff of more than 247 active physicians serves the two campuses. The Barry Road facility is an 80-bed general acute-care hospital including a special-care nursery. The Smithville location opened in 1938 as the first Northland hospital. Today it encompasses 92 beds.
3. Saint Luke’S South
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (913) 317-7000
Address: 12300 Metcalf Ave.
Description: This 75-bed facility offers a range of health care services including emergency, physical and occupational therapies, happy-mom-happy-baby birthing suites, prenatal services and a Level II nursery, cardiac diagnostic testing and rehabilitation, sleep disorder center, pain management clinic, and radiology services, along with surgery center. Saint Luke’s South was designed to be exceedingly patient friendly, with new technology such as wireless communication, electronic patient records, and bedside registration. Now that’s a brilliant idea! It also offers a 90,000-square-foot medical office building on its campus.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Address: 9100 W. 74th St.
5. Ask-A-Nurse
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (816) 932-6220, (800) 932-6220
Description: Stubbed toe? Chest pain? Is it a cold or the flu . . . or perhaps that potato salad that sat out all day? You can get immediate answers to your medical questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week through this free service. It’s also a handy way to find out about upcoming community education classes and register at the same time. And if you’re new in town, you can find a physician (within the Saint Luke’s family, of course) who meets your specific needs.
6. The Cancer Institute
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (913) 676-8156
Description: This oncology partnership, affiliated with Saint Luke’s Health System, provides the community with a wide variety of services from a single source. The institute collaborates with Kansas City’s academic and research communities to provide research, therapies, and ongoing care. Specific services include inpatient oncology treatment, radiation therapy, breast centers at Menorah Medical Center and Saint Luke’s Hospital, the Blood and Marrow Transplant program, a gynecologic oncology practice, and Gamma Knife services at Research Medical Center.
7. Crittenton Behavioral Health
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (816) 767-4101
Address: 10918 Elm Ave.
Description: Located on a picturesque 156-acre site near Longview Lake in southeast Kansas City, Crittenton is Kansas City’s premier provider of psychiatric care for children and their families.Founded in 1896, the center has evolved into a comprehensive system of care that includes acute inpatient hospitalization, partial hospitalization, community-based services, and prevention services. On any given day, more than 100 children and young people receive treatment in one of the therapeutic programs. Additional behavioral health programs, for children and adults, are available at several locations through the system. These include addictions services and assessment centers.
8. Home Care And Hospice
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (816) 756-1160
Description: As the largest full-service home care organization in Kansas City, this organization provides home health services to help patients remain independent and decrease the time they need to spend in the hospital; hospice services, which provide caring medical and emotional support to patients and their families during the last days of life; plus home pharmacy infusion, medical equipment, and private-duty services.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Address: 1000 Carondelet Dr.
10. St. Mary’S Hospital Of Blue Springs
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (816) 228-5900
Address: 201 W. R. D. Mize Rd.
Description: This 111-bed acute care hospital opened the first Birthing Center in Missouri, providing a homelike environment for families. The hospital also has a 24-hour emergency room, Lifeline, hospice care, pain clinic, mobile CT scanner, and physical therapy unit. Ongoing community wellness programs include coping with diabetes, prenatal and postnatal education, and CPR classes. St. Mary’s Manor, a skilled nursing and residential care facility, is located adjacent to the hospital campus.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Address: 5721 W. 119th St.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Address: 10500 Quivira Rd.
13. Research Psychiatric Center
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (816) 444-8161
Address: 2323 E. 63rd St.
Description: This center offers a full continuum of behavioral health services, including inpatient and partial hospitalization programs, as well as a CareNet Clinic that provides crisis intervention, outpatient counseling, and community support groups. The 40-member medical staff and 100-member allied staff provide services available to the Greater Kansas City area. The center’s Senior Adult Inpatient Treatment is known regionally and nationally for its quality and longevity. Patients are treated based on their needs, either as high-functioning seniors or those who suffer from organic or chronic mental illness. Separate treatment programs are available through the Child and Adolescent Program, which includes a tutorial system that helps patients from ages 13 to 18 keep up with schoolwork.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Address: 6601 Rockhill Rd.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Health Care
Address: 2401 Gillham Rd.