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Accessing Accounts for Patients Over 18 Years
We can help you get access to patient portal accounts for patients over the age of 18. There are typically a few situations where this is needed: New patients who are over the age of 18, enrolling for the...
Kids Eat Free! Meal Program
Free lunch for kids ages 1-18 Monday–Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children's Mercy main campus (2401 Gillham Road) and Broadway campus (3101 Broadway Boulevard). Available on a first come, first served...
Adulting 101: Applying for college financial aid
Higher education is an important goal for many students, but it comes with its share of questions about affordability. Degrees aren’t cheap, and you want to be sure you and your student are making a sound...
Children's Mercy App
Icon The Children’s Mercy app helps you handle the details of your child’s health care visit so you can focus on what’s most important: your child. Save your spot at one of our urgent care clinics, plan for...
Wise Use of Antibiotics: Management Strategies for Common Animal Bites
Column Author: Marsha A. Dannenberg, MD | Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University...
How to protect your little ones from button and lithium coin batteries
As parents, ensuring the safety of our children is always a top priority. One hidden danger that many might overlook is the presence of button batteries in everyday household items. These small...
Outbreaks, Alerts & Hot Topics: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Column Author and Editor: Chris Day, MD | Medical Director, Immune Compromised Service & Special Immunology Clinic, Infectious Diseases; Medical Director, International Travel Clinic...
Lodging and Transportation: Help from Medicaid
Medicaid can help with rides to your child's medical appointments, gas, and hotel accommodations. Find helpful phone numbers for Missouri and Kansas.
Pediatric Bioethics: Rethinking Disability in Pediatrics: Historical, Conceptual and Ethical Reflections to Improve Clinical Practice
Column Author: Jeremy R. Garrett, PhD | Program Director, Pediatric Bioethics Fellowship, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Column Editor: Brian...
Lateral Meniscus Tear: Deron’s Story
Meet Deron Deron is an extraordinarily driven young athlete and student. The Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens tight end collaborated with physical therapist Nicole Hogan, PT, DPT, to overcome a...
Risks and Benefits of Presumptive Treatment for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Risks of untreated PID: Chronic pelvic pain Infertility (tubal damage-induced infertility) Twenty-five percent of females develop complications including tubal scarring and adhesions Increased risk of...
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...
Insulin Dose Calculator
The Diabetes Insulin Dose Calculator uses data you input to determine the proper insulin dosage to provide before eating. These dosing guidelines should be used in conjunction with instructions from your...
Child Life Student Opportunities
Children's Mercy Hospital is committed to providing an established, competitive and highly sought after child life internship program offering comprehensive, competency based, and hands-on opportunities...
Observerships
Children's Mercy Hospital provides dynamic opportunities for observerships. Observerships at Children's Mercy give students an opportunity to observe physicians, nurses, and health care professionals...
Speech and Language Services
The Hearing and Speech Clinic at Children's Mercy provides evaluations, consultations, parent counseling and therapies for children with communication or feeding and swallowing disorders. ...
Heart Transplant: Alex and Jaymeson’s stories
Alex and Jaymeson (Jay) bonded over a very unique shared experience: They both received heart transplants at Children’s Mercy Kansas City in February 2024 — less than a week apart!
Wellness Programs
We keep you feeling good. Children’s Mercy believes that our workforce is our most important asset to the organization and keeping our people healthy is key to our success. Whether it be through resident...
ED Behavioral Escalation Huddle
What is a High Risk Behavioral Health Huddle? A High Risk Behavioral Health Huddle is an impromptu, acute meeting between key stakeholders in the Emergency Department (ED) and the hospital. These meetings...
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...