Send A Message About Giving  The Healthier Ever After Employee Campaign Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics are very fortunate to be the recipient of many gifts and donations.  Our community recognizes our worth and the vital role we play in the health and well being of our most vulnerable citizens.  Some donors give cash to be used at our discretion, while others specify which department, service or even equipment that they wish to support.  Others give "gifts in kind" which are donations of goods or services free of charge.  And some give the simple and valuab... [More]

Hunger Is Not a ChoiceGiving Is Did you have breakfast this morning? If you did not, was it because you chose not to eat?  Sadly, many people do not have a choice in whether they have breakfast or not.  Many know upon going to bed that they will not have that choice upon arising.  The choices they have may be limited to which meal or meals they will have to go without.  For many children, the only meals they can count on are the free and reduced-priced meals provided through school breakfast and lunch programs.  But during the summer months, while school is not i... [More]

Tears, Tissues and Gratitude   The Nursing Scholarship Awards Ceremony Seventy-one scholarships were awarded at the Nursing Scholarship Awards Ceremony.  The ceremony was touching.  Many of the stories shared moved eyes to tears and hands to tissues.  Despite tears and tissues it was by no means a somber event.  Many smiles and laughter was shared as well.  And then there were the children.  Donors' and recipients' children, some in the aisle, some cradled and held, some calling out to mommies on stage, others carrying flowers to give, all reminding ... [More]