Children's Mercy Hospital
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Adele Hall Campus
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| Geography | |
| Location | 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°05′06″N 94°34′48″W / 39.085°N 94.580°WCoordinates: 39°05′06″N 94°34′48″W / 39.085°N 94.580°W |
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| Care system | Private |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Hospital type | Specialized |
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KU-MED UMKC |
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| Emergency department | Yes (Adele Hall Campus and Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas) |
| Helipad | Yes (two at Adele Hall Campus and one at Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1897 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Missouri |
Children's Mercy Hospital is a 367-bed comprehensive pediatric medical center in Kansas City, Missouri that integrates clinical care, research and medical education to provide care for patients ages birth to 21. The hospital's primary service area covers a 150-county area in Missouri and Kansas. Children's Mercy has received national recognition from U.S. News & World Report in ten pediatric specialties. The hospital was the first in Missouri and Kansas to receive Magnet Recognition for excellence in nursing services from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and has been re-designated four times.
Children's Mercy Hospital is the primary location for Children's Mercy Kansas City, a comprehensive pediatric health system with multiple locations in Missouri and Kansas. The not-for-profit hospital was founded in 1897 by two sisters, one a surgeon and the other a dentist, to provide care for poor and ill children. The hospital quickly grew and expanded services to all children in the region. According to the hospital's Community Benefit Report, in 2012, the hospital provided more than $130 million in uncompensated care, which includes charity care, unreimbursed Medicaid and other means-tested government programs, and subsidized health services.
Katharine and Alice Berry were both widowed when they came to Kansas City from Wisconsin in 1895. They put each other through school; Katharine being the first to get her medical degree while Alice worked as a school teacher, and then Alice obtained her dentist degree—both male-only professions during the 19th century. The women were excluded from professional medical groups because of their gender, and their entrepreneurial spirit discouraged. But the two persevered and due to their widowed status, were permitted to control their own finances, which they poured into their medical work with children.
Children's Mercy Hospital was founded in 1897 when Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, now a surgeon, and her sister Dr. Alice Berry Graham, a dentist, found a crippled, malnourished girl abandoned in the streets of Kansas City, Missouri and treated and cared for her at a rented bed in a hospital. Since no hospital in the city allowed a woman physician on the staff, the sisters continued treating patients by renting beds in a small hospital.
The bed soon became known as the "Mercy Bed," and the need for health care for children continued to grow. By 1899, the Berry sisters had moved into their own building, naming it Free Bed Fund Association for Crippled, Deformed, and Ruptured Children. The hospital soon changed its name to Mercy Hospital before finally becoming Children's Mercy Hospital in 1904.
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