Hospital Affiliates
University Health Truman Medical Center
University Health Truman Medical Center (UHTMC) is a busy, urban hospital that provides a broad array of acute and outpatient services to a diverse patient population. The medical center is known for excellence in emergency and Level I trauma services, and is also recognized for programs in asthma, chronic disease management, diabetes, emergency medicine, obstetrics and high risk obstetrics, ophthalmology and women’s health. It is the busiest Adult Level I Trauma Center in Kansas City with its emergency department averaging nearly 70,000 visits annually.
On an annual basis, the 308-bed medical center admits more than 11,500 patients, provides more than 206,000 outpatient visits and performs approximately 111,000 radiology examinations. UHTMC has 329 physicians on staff, and is physically connected to Children’s Mercy Hospital and the UMKC School of Medicine, which includes a complete Health Science Library, research facilities and conference sites.
University Health Truman Medical Center
2101 Charlotte Street
816-404-1000
University Health Lakewood Medical Center
University Health Lakewood Medical Center (UHLMC), located in Eastern Jackson County, is the setting for the UMKC School of Medicine Department of Community and Family Medicine. With 103 patient care beds and 212 long-term care beds in the Lakewood Care Center, UHLMC is known for providing comprehensive healthcare to a diverse patient population.
The Lakewood Care Center is the only long term care center in the Kansas City area based in an inpatient setting. Lakewood Care Center provides residents access to acute and specialty care services on site. A Board Certified Geriatric Specialist serves as the full-time medical director, overseeing all patient care services. This 212-bed fully accredited long-term care center provides each resident with a fully furnished room and bath. A dedicated 20-bed Alzheimer’s/Dementia unit is located within the care center as well. Many specialty services are provided on-site and include, Audiology, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Mental Health Services, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pulmonary, Rehabilitation Services and Sleep Medicine.
University Health – Lakewood Medical Center
7900 Lee’s Summit Road
816-404-7000
University Health Behvioral Health
University Health Behavioral Health (UHBH) delivers services through community outreach clinics in the Kansas City metropolitan area as well as at our main location in the Crossroads Art District. Our unique role as a hospital-based mental health center supports a whole-person, integrated health model of service delivery that is increasingly the standard of best practice for healthcare.
All of our mental health services are aimed at assisting clients in managing the symptoms of their illness and in improving functioning in their day-to-day lives. Services also provide the support many persons with mental illness need to regain a sense of meaning and purpose in life. If you need help with mental health or substance abuse issues, University Health Behavioral Health is here for you.
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Saint Luke’s Health System is a faith-based, not-for-profit, aligned health system committed to the highest levels of excellence in providing healthcare and health-related services in a caring environment. Saint Luke’s Health System includes 10 hospitals across the Kansas City region, home care and hospice, behavioral healthcare, dozens of physician practices and more.
Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City is one of our major academic and clinical training sites, and is the site of the Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute. Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City has served the healthcare needs of a growing Kansas City for more than 130 years. The region’s only heart transplant program, and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular disease outcome research programs is based at the Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute. Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases, and the nation’s leading stroke reversal program dedicated to preventing and treating stroke is based at Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute. Other specialized clinical services include a Level I Trauma Center, Level IIIb Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Women’s Services, Pain Management Center, comprehensive cancer program at the Cancer Institute, Regional Arthritis Center, Sexual Assault Treatment Center, Children’s speech, physical and occupational therapy program (SPOT), and kidney and heart transplantation programs.
Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City is a 629-bed tertiary care referral center serving a six-state region, admitting approximately 20,000 patients annually. Saint Luke’s has 466 physicians on staff.
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
4401 Wornall Road
816-932-2000
Sait Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute, the only dedicated neuroscience hospital in Kansas City, opened in 2013. The facility brings together leading-edge diagnostics, treatment and surgical services in one convenient location on the Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City campus. An acclaimed team of brain and stroke experts offers the region’s most advanced stroke care providing stroke reversal therapies and treatment to more than 1,500 patients each year, a Level IV Comprehensive Epilepsy Center offering advanced diagnostics and surgical intervention for people living with epilepsy, a neurorehabilitation and physical medicine program designed to help patients return to the highest level of functioning possible, and the Midwest Ear Institute, a leader in advancing cochlear implant technology, offering a broad range of services to people suffering from hearing and balance disorders.
The team at Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute includes neurologists dedicated to treating the full range of neurological conditions, a subspecialty-trained team of neurosurgeons, and specialists in interventional neuroradiology, neuro-otology, neuro-rehabilitation, psychiatry and sleep medicine.
U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-14 Best Hospitals recognized Saint Luke’s Hospital for excellence in neurology and neurosurgery.
Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
4401 Wornall Road
Kansas City, MO 64111
816-932-2000
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Children’s Mercy Hopital Kansas City is one of the country’s leading free-standing independent pediatric medical centers with 319 licensed beds, more than 40 pediatric subspecialty clinics, a Level IIIc intensive care nursery and the only Level I pediatric trauma center between St. Louis and Denver. The hospital’s faculty of more than 400 pediatric subspecialists is one of the largest in the country and is actively involved in clinical care, pediatric research and educating the next generation of pediatric specialists. The hospital’s leadership in personalized medicine and genomics is driving research and innovation here and around the world in areas such as cancer treatment, heart care and neonatology, and helping to redefine pediatric medicine.
Pediatric Neurology
The Division of Neurology at Children's Mercy Hospital provides a family-centered, interdisciplinary approach to encourage parents and families to make informed decisions while promoting health, optimal function, and quality of life in children with pediatric neurological disorders. The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center is nationally recognized and one of only a dozen pediatric centers in the country.
The Division of Neurology has 11 physicians who are board-certified in neurology. They have special expertise in neurophysiology, neuro-developmental disabilities and headaches. Three physicians have additional board certification in neurophysiology, and one has additional board certification in neuro-developmental disabilities. Children’s Mercy Hospital Division of Neurology has a child neurology fellowship program and three administrative staff members.
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
2401 Gilham Road
816-234-3000