Physician Opportunities
Since 1897, Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City has been the pediatric provider of choice for families throughout Missouri and Kansas. Working closely with pediatricians and hospitals throughout the region, Children's Mercy makes the highest quality pediatric expertise available for non-critical illnesses, as well as serious and chronic conditions.
Children's Mercy is committed to providing service excellence and efficiency to everyone we serve. We achieve this through leadership in education, research and clinical care, all focused exclusively on children and their unique needs. We are a not-for-profit hospital, providing more than $12 million in charity care a year.
The fact is, no one does more to help kids get better sooner than Children's Mercy. It's what we do. It's all we do.
Clinical Care
- Medical staff of more than 350 pediatric specialists
- Programs and services representing more than 35 pediatric subspecialties
Education
- Affiliation with University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School
- Residency affiliations with major medical schools nationwide
- Home of the nation's first Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
- Nursing students from 16 schools in the Kansas City area receive training at Children's Mercy
Research
- A dramatic Research Vision that includes laboratory research in genetics, cancer, neonatology, immunology and nursing
- One of seven National Institutes of Health-funded Pediatric Pharmacology Research Units in the United States studying the effect of pharmaceuticals on children
- New laboratories and sophisticated technology combine to attract the brightest physician scientists and clinical scholars from across North America
- More than 850 clinical research papers published in the past five years, representing millions of dollars in research
