Welcome to the press room for Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. Our Public Information office designed this as a resource for members of the media. We are available to assist you with story development - from arranging interviews with our doctors or patients, suggestioning set-up locations for shoots, answering questions, or providing you with cutting edge pediatric health information.

A Public Information Office representative is on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to respond to media inquiries.

Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in the News

2009

• 10/14/2009: Home Tour Raises Money for Opthalmology Department at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics 
• 9/16/2009: Children's Mercy to Establish New Fetal Health Center 
• 9/10/2009: Children’s Mercy Unveils New State-of-the-Art EC145 Helicopter 
• 9/9/2009: Children's Mercy announces first implant with MatrACELL(TM) technology
• 8/11/2009: Children's Mercy Parent to be Twitter Guest During Daughter's Surgery
• 8/03/2009: Children's Mercy to Expand Locations and Services With Purchase of Broadway Summit Building
• 7/07/2009: Children's Mercy First to Twitter About Pediatric Plastic Surgery
• 6/18/2009: Children's Mercy Ranked Among the Best Pediatric Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report
• 6/08/2009: KCALSI Awards $150,000 Grant to Children's Mercy Hospital for New Pediatric Drug Reformulation Program
• 4/14/2009: John Lantos to Head New Pediatric Bioethics Center at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
• 3/31/2009: Children's Mercy doctor leads group to revise nutritional guidelines for children with Chronic Kidney Disease
• 3/19/2009: Children’s Mercy Launches Million Reasons Mosaic Ad Campaign to Capture Family Stories at MillionReasons.org
• 2/13/2009: Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics Patient Will Represent Kansas as Part of a Group of Young Medical Champions
• 2/06/2009: Children's Mercy honored for increasing pediatric organ and tissue donation

2008

• 10/30/2008: Children's Mercy to Participate in Task Force on Best Practices for Pediatric Weight Management Programs
• 7/18/2008: Hall Family plans $11 million donation toward expansion
• 3/19/2008: PHIT Kids wins national honor for unique approach, success
• 3/18/2008: Weighing In Coalition Kansas City
• 2/01/2008: Children's Mercy receives $43 million donation pledge

2007 Archive

2006 Archive