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Tips to become a health literacy hero
As parents, we all want the best for our children. Especially when it comes to their health. Medical information can sometimes feel like a secret language, and you may wish you had a superpower to decode...
State of the Art Pediatrics: The Demise of Pediatric Subspecialty Health Care in America
Column Author: Christopher M Oermann, MD | Director, Cystic Fibrosis Cente Column Editor: Amita Amonker, MD, FAAP | Physician Advisor, Care Management and Utilization Review...
Evidence Based Strategies: Along With Spring Comes the Ticks: A Brief Overview of Tickborne Diseases
Column Author: Nicole Neeley, MD | Pediatric Resident PGY 2 Column Editor: Kathleen J. Berg, MD, FAAP | Medical Director, Office of Evidence-Based Practice In the United...
Parent Support Program
The Parent Support Program at our Kansas City Adele Hall Campus offers comfort, support, encouragement, and guidance to caregivers. When a baby or child is sick and in the hospital, it can be stressful for...
Employment Policy
Resources Panel Children's Mercy hires individuals based on their job skills, expertise and ability to maintain professional relationships with fellow employees, patients, parents and visitors. A...
Our Mission
Four Pillars of the Rising T1DE Alliance Predict Intervene Implement Disseminate Targeting and predicting outcomes The Rising T1DE leverages advanced machine learning and natural language processing to...
Patient and Family Engagement
The Patient and Family Engagement team partners with patients and families to improve the quality, safety, and experience of care for all children.
Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG) After a Urodynamic Study
A VCUG helps your child’s doctor learn more about your child’s bladder, ureters and kidneys. This information will help prepare you and your child for a VCUG.
Privacy Policy
The Children's Mercy Hospital (“CMH”) has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy rights and protection of personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy...
Significant Dates in the History of Children's Mercy
Dr. Alice Berry Graham 1897: Dr. Alice Berry Graham and her sister, Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, open The Free Bed Fund Association for Crippled, Deformed and Ruptured Children with one bed in a women’s...
COVID-19 Vaccine at Children's Mercy
Children’s Mercy is following the vaccine rollout plans developed by Missouri and Kansas. Get information from our experts about the COVID-19 vaccine.
Children’s Mercy Topeka at Stormont Vail Health
Full-time pediatric subspecialty clinics including cardiology, endocrinology/diabetes and neurology. Children’s Mercy Topeka at Stormont Vail Health offers families world-class pediatric specialty care in...
Inguinal Hernia Surgery
An inguinal hernia in an infant or child is due to a persistent communication with the abdominal cavity. Inguinal (groin) hernias are the most common type of hernia in children. They occur in up to 5% of...
Complex Care Coordination
What is complex care? Children with complex medical conditions face certain risks when undergoing prolonged surgeries such as spinal fusion or involved hip surgeries. This program ensures children with...
Children’s Mercy Research Institute
The Children’s Mercy Research Institute is creating an integrated research environment where no boundaries exist between science and medicine. In our quest to find answers to pediatric medicine’s most...
Improving Research Confidentiality
Leading with the Children's Mercy value of curiosity, Saskia Miller, ORI Director, identified a roadblock that prevented some researchers from attaining a higher level of privacy protections for study...
Spinal Fusion: Neuromuscular ERAS
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs promote an evidence-based, multidisciplinary approach to patient care aimed at facilitating faster recovery from surgery, decreasing hospital length of stay...
Turner Syndrome
Resources Turner syndrome (TS) happens when one of the two X-chromosomes in individuals assigned female at birth is missing or partially missing. There are many different variations of TS. While TS is a...
Mental Health: Music for the Mind
Column Author: Trent Myers, MD | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Column Editor: Theodore Brisimitzakis, DO | Clinical Assistant...
Constipation: every parent’s favorite topic
It’s amazing how once you become a parent you begin to realize that talking about poop is just part of everyday conversation. Has your child pooped today? What was the consistency? What was the color?