Company Profile
Children's Mercy
Company Overview
Children's Mercy continues transforming children's lives and redefining pediatric medicine.
We are the only free-standing children's hospital between St. Louis and Denver and provide comprehensive care for patients from birth to 21. Children's Mercy consistently is ranked among the leading children's hospitals in the nation. We were the first hospital in Missouri or Kansas to earn the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in patient care from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Clinical Care
Medical staff of more than 700 pediatric specialists
More than 40 pediatric specialties
First hospital in Missouri or Kansas to receive Magnet designation in 2003 from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for superior nursing quality
First hospital in the region to receive redesignation in 2007 and again in 2012
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Education
Affiliation with University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Principal teaching hospital for The University of Kansas Medical Center
More than 400 medical students each year.
60 doctors take part yearly in our fellowship programs
Home of the nation’s first Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
Nursing students from dozens of schools in the Kansas City area receive training at Children’s Mercy
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Research
More than 100 physician scientists, basic scientists, nurses, fellows and residents involved in research projects, representing millions of dollars in multi-year awards
Co-leading the largest nephrology research project in North America
More than 140 clinical trials on-going at any one time
The largest Clinical Pharmacology program in North American and one of 13 designated Pediatric Pharmacology Research Units studying the safety of new medications for use by children
The Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, established in 2011 as the first genome center in the world entirely inside a children’s hospital with a focus on the diagnosis of inherited pediatric diseases. One of the 10 leading institutions in the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute, which also includes the University of Kansas, Midwest Research Institute, University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Stowers Institute.
Company History
Children's Mercy begins with two compassionate sisters
The founding of Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is traced to 1897 and two sisters, Dr. Alice Berry Graham, a dentist, and Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, a physician.
As the story goes, a saloonkeeper in the Kansas City Stockyards had heard of the sisters' reputation for helping poor, sick children and he told Dr. Graham of a woman he had seen in the streets trying to give away her crippled 5-year-old daughter.
Drs. Graham and Richardson found the girl abandoned, undernourished and poorly clothed. They arranged a bed for her at a small hospital on 15th and Cleveland in downtown Kansas City on June 24, 1897. The doctors established the Free Bed Fund Association and through painstaking care, they restored life to the orphaned child's crippled legs. With surgery and therapy, she walked again.
Their act of compassion and medical expertise was the beginning of what has become one of the leading children's hospitals in the world: Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics.
Today, Children's Mercy includes two hospitals: a state-of-the-art hospital located at 2401 Gillham Rd. in Kansas City, Mo. The hospital is licensed for 301 beds, and 14 shorty-stay beds. Children's Mercy South, a 53-bed hospital in suburban Overland Park, Kan. In addition, there are bustling outpatient clinics and urgent care centers throughout the metropolitan areas and many other communities in Missouri and Kansas.