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Specialties

Children's Mercy faculty are leaders in their fields, offering extensive expertise across more than 50 specialty areas. Pursue your area of interest and help us create a world of well-being for all...

Conversations about weight: A focus on overall health

Talking about your child’s weight may feel uncomfortable or challenging to bring up for a variety of reasons. But what if “weight” wasn’t the main focus of the conversation? While weight and height are...

Hematology, Oncology and BMT Family Care Team

At Children’s Mercy, your child’s care involves so much more than medical treatment. Our Family Care Team looks at your child’s unique needs—physical, developmental, emotional, educational and...

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Treatments

Children’s Mercy rehabilitation medicine physicians offer cutting-edge treatments for children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Currently, there are two FDA-approved treatment options for SMA, Spinraza...

Constipation and Encopresis

Constipation and encopresis in children The BRICK (Bowel Retraining in Constipated Kids) clinic is a subspecialty clinic within the Division of Gastroenterology at Children’s Mercy dedicated to the care of...

Suicide Awareness and Prevention Toolkit

It’s tough to start the conversation about suicide. Whether you need help or want to help someone else, here are some resources to help you take the first step toward hope and healing.

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Description: A typical schedule will consist of both inpatient and outpatient experiences.  On the inpatient rehabilitation service, the student will work directly with a fellow and attending seeing...

What to Expect - Heart Surgery

If your child needs cardiovascular surgery, you can be sure that their heart is in good hands. We provide a careful and thorough process from scheduling to follow-up care to ensure that every child gets...

Leukemia

The Children’s Mercy Leukemia and Lymphoma Program has compiled the following information for families who want to better understand the types, causes and treatments for leukemia. You can also visit...

Transformational Pediatrics Podcast

Interviews with physicians and researchers at Children’s Mercy Kansas City who are transforming pediatric care through genomic medicine, personalized therapeutics, health services and outcomes research...

Hip Program

The orthopedic specialists at Children’s Mercy work together with our physical therapists, radiologists, and pain management team to provide the best possible care for children and teens with hip...

Eating disorder facts

Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Related Disorders Who gets these types of eating disorders? Anyone can develop an eating disorder. How eating disorders evolve is still poorly understood. Risk...

Application Requirements

Qualifications   Graduate degree from a master’s-level program at an accredited college or university, preferably from a Health Care Administration program. Past candidates have possessed an MBA, MHSA...

Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Description and Educational Objectives: To expose the student, either through clinical encounters, bedside teaching or didactic lectures/problem-based learning modules to the following diseases and...

Additional Consults/Evaluations

<!--StartFragment-->   If concern for child abuse  Consult Safety Care and Nurturing (SCAN) Clinic and Social Work    If concern for aspiration due to feeding problem  Consult...

Full Athlete Care

Children’s Mercy provides a variety of sports performance services to enhance all aspects of a student-athlete’s health. From sports nutrition to mental health to injury prevention, we help your athlete...

Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellowship

Our Genomic Medicine Center Faculty and Fellows Email Us How to Apply The Laboratory Genetics and Genomics (LGG) fellowship at Children’s Mercy is a 36-month accredited American Board of Medical Genetics...

Transition Program: Adult Primary Care Providers

Primary Care Adult primary care clinic providers If you have commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans or other state Medicaid insurance programs, you should ask about a list of...

Adaptive Sports Medicine Program

The Adaptive Sports Medicine program at Children’s Mercy provides comprehensive evaluation and guidance for children and teens with all types of disabilities who want to participate in sports.

Educational Offerings

Learn about the educational offerings for health care professionals provided by Children's Mercy. Grands Rounds, programs, courses, training, and events are all available to those looking to further...