Children’s Mercy Hospital

Children’s Mercy, Kansas City (CMKC) is a free-standing, nonprofit 366 bed academic pediatric health system located in Kansas City, Missouri that provides comprehensive primary and tertiary specialty care to children up to the age of 21 from approximately a 189-county region in Missouri and Kansas, as well as more than 40 other states. It offers the only Level I pediatric trauma center and the only Level IV NICU between St. Louis and Denver. Comprehensive care is provided by more than 700 medical staff members representing more than 40 specialty areas. The Hospital is the only Level I pediatric trauma center in the region and is the primary pediatric teaching hospital for the Schools of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC). CMKC’s primary service area consists of 18 counties, nine each in the states of Missouri and Kansas, with an additional 20 counties in Kansas and 31 counties in Missouri constituting its secondary service area.