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Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute – Leawood; Menorah Medical Center – Overland Park; Mid-America Rehabilitation Hospital – Overland Park; Olathe Medical Center – Olathe; Overland Park Regional Medical Center – Overland Park; Saint Luke's South Hospital – Overland Park; Specialty Hospital of Mid-America – Overland Park
Research Medical Center - Brookside Campus was originally established as Baptist Memorial Hospital in 1945. [1] It merged with Trinity Lutheran Hospital in 2001 to form Baptist-Lutheran Medical Center. [2]
The origins of University Health Truman Medical Center began in 1870 with the construction of City Hospital at 22nd Street and McCoy Avenue (now Kenwood Avenue) in Kansas City. [4] Voters approved a bond issue in 1903 to fund the construction of a new larger General Hospital because the 175-bed hospital was deemed insufficient for the growing city.
The Mid America Heart Institute was commissioned in 1975. At that time, the vast majority of all heart procedures in the Kansas City area and over 20% of cardiovascular procedures in both Kansas and Missouri were done by providers on staff at Saint Luke's Hospital. The Mid America Heart Institute began construction in 1979 and was dedicated in ...
In 1975 he received a Most Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Medical Alumni Association at the University of Kansas. [4] Between 1972 and his death in 1980, Harrington worked with Marc Addason Asher to institute the Mary Alice and Paul R. Harrington Distinguished Professorship of Molecular Orthopedics at Kansas University Medical College. [7]
The School of Medicine was formed in 1905, with several Kansas City hospitals being combined within the next ten years. In 1947, the campus was renamed to the University of Kansas Medical Center. [5] The campus began expanding its programs over the next forty years, and on February 27, 1990, the hospital performed its first liver transplant. [6]
At the request of local physician Dr. Jefferson Griffith and Father Bernard Donnelly, six sisters from Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, led by Mother Celeste O’Reilly, arrived in Kansas City, Missouri in 1874 to establish a hospital.
The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, established in 1971, [9] is one of three medical schools located near downtown Kansas City and only one of two public medical schools in the state of Missouri. [10]