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What is a Patient-Centered Medical Home?
A medical home is a clinic that serves as your child's health care home base. It's important for your child to have a medical home, where they are seen regularly. A medical home helps your child get...
Pharmacogenetic Testing
Pharmacogenetics is the study of how differences (genetic variants) in a person’s DNA affect the way they respond to medication. DNA is the genetic material in our cells that makes up the “blueprints”
Community of Bilingual Practice
What is the Community of Bilingual Practice? CBP image The Community of Bilingual Practice (CBP) is a dynamic community of bilingual health and human services professionals dedicated to serving those...
Preparing for CT Scan
CT scan media block What is a CT scan? A computed tomography scan (CT scan) uses computers and a moving X-ray machine to take pictures of the inside of the body. CTs can make detailed pictures of organs...
Interventional radiology procedure process
The picture below demonstrates the catheter set-up for a thrombolysis procedure These pathways do not establish a standard of care to be followed in every case. It is recognized that each case is...
Preparing Your Child for Surgery Ages 3 and older
When you arrive in Same Day Surgery, you and your family will check in at the front desk. Next, a staff person will take you and your family to a room where you will wait for your surgery and meet...
Community Advisory Board and Youth Research Advisory Board
As part of the commitment to community engagement, the CMRI established the Community Advisory Board (CAB) in 2020 and the Youth Research Advisory Board (YRAB) in 2022. Board members provide input on CMRI...
Powering Families Webinar Series
A monthly series of free webinars. Connect with Children’s Mercy Kansas City experts and partners on a variety of topics, including healthy eating, financial resources, anxiety and depression, kids’ safety...
Differences between IEP and 504 plans
IEP 504 A legal document that is developed collaboratively between school personnel and the child’s parents/legal guardians to make sure the child’s educational needs are met. An IEP must...
Hem/Onc/BMT PFAC
Mission PFAC Hemoc/Onc/BMT logo The Hem/Onc/BMT Patient Family Advisory Council will work in partnership with Children’s Mercy staff members to advocate on behalf of patients and families for the best...
Helping Your Child During a Mental Health Crisis
Find out how to help a child in crisis and what to expect when you come to the Children's Mercy Emergency Room for a mental health crisis.
Milkovich Lab
About the Team The Milkovich lab actively collaborates with numerous investigators and community partners to evaluate the influence of environmental factors impacting children's development and...
Visual Diagnosis: Poor Weight Gain
A 3-month-old female is admitted directly to the hospital for further evaluation of poor weight gain.
Have fun in the sun - safely!
As the weather warms up, we’re all spending more time outdoors, and that means more time in the sun. Whether your family likes swimming, picnicking, playing sports or just hanging out in the backyard, you...
Crohn's Disease: Leah's Story
Leah Steinacker was a busy, active high school senior when sudden, severe stomach pain landed her in the hospital at Children’s Mercy. Her experience receiving care for Crohn's disease inspired her...
Bowel Management Boot Camp
The Children’s Mercy Bowel Management Boot Camp is a week-long outpatient program in Kansas City for children who want to gain confidence with their bowel control. The program is offered by the...
Sleep Center
The Children’s Mercy Sleep Center is one of the largest pediatric programs in the country and the only accredited pediatric sleep lab in the region. Our team of experienced and dedicated sleep physicians...
Gun Safety - Pediatric Bioethics - August 2022
From an ethical perspective – as a measure of safety and preventing harm – pediatricians have a duty to ask their patients and families about gun ownership and gun safety.
Nursing Student Programs
We are one of the best pediatric medical centers in the nation. Child Magazine named us one of the top 10 children’s hospitals in America and has repeatedly earned nursing’s highest honor...
Mykael's Story
Every day when his alarm rings at 5:30 a.m., 17-year-old Mykael White is up and out the door. First stop—the pool, where he does early morning laps before heading to his second stop—classes at Bonner...