Opening in 1971, KC Care operated as The Westport Free Health Clinic and operated from the lobby of the Alcazar Hotel. The organization provided free medical services and was funded entirely by donations and the work of volunteers. The clinic was founded by residents who mirrored the diversity of Kansas City, and their original charge made it clear that its mission was to serve all in need from students to the elderly. Reflecting the needs of the neighborhood and the era of their founding, clinic staff explicitly identified the needs of "hippies" who lived in this part of the city as central to their mission and adopted the motto "a healthy hippie is a happy hippie."[1]After two years of operation, the organization received the donation of a house at 40th and Baltimore which the clinic utilized to provide both primary care and reproductive care. In the years that followed, dental students who volunteered their services and acquired the clinic's first dental chair to support the expansion of the clinic's mission to include oral care. As the needs of the community changed in the 1980s, the clinic responded by providing services to those affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. The clinic was the first testing site in western Missouri to offer counseling, testing, and health services anonymously. By 1993, the clinic received federal funding and included a staff of eight employees. In that year, the clinic moved to a building at 39th and Main Street. The clinic also became the lead Ryan White grantee in Kansas City and operated the most comprehensive system of health services related to HIV and AIDS in the area.

KC Care Health Center grew from a small volunteer organization in the early 1970s

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Established in 1971 as the Westport Free Health Clinic, KC Care Health Clinic strives to provide promote health and wellness by offering services to area residents that include HIV prevention, behavioral health, primary care services, and dentistry. The clinic began with only volunteers and donations, operating out of the lobby of the Alcazar Hotel. Over the past fifty years, the clinic has grown to include full-time and part-time staff and significant grant funding.

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Kansas City is home to many hospitals and each have a unique history. All of the hospitals listed either still currently exist or have been decommissioned and are now apart of history. 

Hospital Hill, home of Kansas City's first public hospital in 1870, now exists as a complex consisting of several medical and medical-teaching facilities. The hospitals are located or near the famous Troost Avenue corridor. One of the newest hospitals, Children's Mercy Research Institute, has windows with unique lights and panels that look like specific DNA information found in patients afflicted with rare diseases. The lighting and nod to the complex research accomplished at the hospital speak to the tremendous advancement in medicine from 1870 to the 2020s, with much of it witnessed in Kansas City's Hospital Hill.Although the incorporation of Kansas City transpired in 1853, the first standing hospital did not open until 1870 after seeing its population grow by more than 600% in the previous decade. The small medical facility known as City Hospital (later, Old City Hospital) opened, the first of many that emerged on property donated by Colonel Thomas Swope. Today, the land has grown and supported several hospitals and medical facilities, garnering it the name of Hosptial Hill. Kansas City experienced significant growth in hospitals during the 1880s, with seven openings during the decade. Between 1900 and 1910, five more hospitals arose, including long-time fixtures Trinity Lutheran (1906), the Downtown St. Mary's Hospital (1907), and General Hospital No. 1 (1908), one of just a handful of urban areas nationwide to offer free health care for the poor. During the Great Depression, General Hospital No. 2 opened at the site of the Old City Hospital in 1930, which served the city's minority population — a stark contrast to what one might have expected in an age of segregation. Still, General Hospital No. 2 only had five beds to serve 18,000 African Americans. It wasn't until Dr. John Edward Perry spearheaded the development of Wheatley-Provident Hospital one mile north (1826 Forest Avenue) in 1918 that a dedicated facility serving African Americans emerged. General Hospitals No. 1 and No. 2 later merged (in 1957), which paved the way for a new building with a new name: Truman Medical Center, which opened in 1976 and still stands today in Hospital Hill. The Children's Mercy Hospitals &amp; Clinics are not far from Truman, whose history dates back to the turn of the twentieth century. In 1899, a small effort directed at children with physical deformities emerged, called the Free Bed Fund Association of Sick, Crippled, Deformed, and Ruptured Children. Inspired by a woman sadly attempting to give away her disabled five-year-old daughter, the one-bed facility grew to become Children's Mercy Hospitals &amp; Clinics, including its 315-bed hospital on Hospital Hill. The $200 million nine-story glass building includes an abundance of space for research, as well as a unique and innovative set of light-colored panels, which spell out DNA sequences of genetic anomalies of patients who have contracted rare illnesses. Additionally, LED lights allow for glowing white panels at night while four panels, which depict DNA mutations found in patients at Children's Mercy, beam red.Today, one will find at Hospital Hill several medical institutions: The University of Missouri-Kansas City Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Nursing; the University Health Truman Medical Center; the Children's Mercy Hospital; Center for Behavioral Medicine, and Truman Behavioral Health Network.

The history of medicine in Kansas City dates back to 1870, seventeen years after the city's incorporation, when the first hospital arose in what is now the Hospital Hill neighborhood. The evolution of hospitals and medical instruction often included facilities constructed in Hospital Hill, including the recent erection of Children's Mercy Research Institute. Its windows and lighting system mimics the DNA mutations and sequences of genetic anomalies found in patients with rare diseases. The lighting speaks to the profound advancement of medical science from 1870 to the twenty-first century.

Children's Mercy Research Institute and Hospital Hill

Wheatley-Provident Hospital opened in 1918 as Kansas City's first hospital for Black people, emerging in an era when schools and hospitals largely denied access to African Americans; it served the Black Community until 1972. Construction of the building occurred in 1902, and it first operated as St. Joseph's Parochial School until Dr. Perry and his supporters secured the building. After the 1970s, the building was used as a haunted house before eventually falling into disrepair. A group recently purchased the building to save it from its demise. It survives as a lasting reminder of Perry's work, as well as the differences in health care between White and Black Americans, including in Kansas City.  Before 1900, the Kansas City General Hospital, the city's only public healthcare institution, had five beds to serve 18,000 African Americans. Dr. John Edward Perry sought to challenge the inequality of healthcare access between White and Black Americans. During the early twentieth century, the vast majority of hospitals in the U.S. either refused to treat African Americans, or only did so in separate and unequal wings. Perry understood discrimination personally. Born in 1870 to two former slaves in Clarksville, Texas, he pursued a medical degree from Meharry Medical College. Upon graduation, Perry experienced discrimination when applying for positions at hospitals across the country. In some cases, medical institutions accepted Perry only to turn him away once they discovered he was Black. In 1902, after moving to Kansas City, he and his wife Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry, daughter of Rosetta Douglass and granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, opened Perry Sanitarium and Nurse Training Association, a small hospital and training school for nurses on 12th &amp; Vine. Dr. Perry also established a private practice at his home. Given the discrimination he faced after graduation, he understood the need to not only treat patients but train medical professionals. His small private hospital served an important need by offering a place for nurses in training to gain practical experience.  After a few years, the facility proved too small, so Perry initiated a fundraiser drive to help secure a new location, and that led to the acquisition of the former St. Joseph's Parochial School. They moved into the now-historic building in 1918 and later added a children's wing with help from the Phyllis Wheatley Club, an African American women's organization, and New Movement Association, an elite African American group; they renamed it the Wheatley-Provident Hospital. In 1922, Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, the founder of Children's Mercy Hospital, realized a high demand existed for treating African American children in Kansas City. She could not convince Children's Mercy Hospital to accept Black children as the hospital board feared it would jeopardize funding from some of their white patrons. With equality denied by the hospital she helped establish, Dr. Richardson sought donors and raised funds to build a new pediatric department at Wheatley-Provident Hospital. With the support of diverse residents of Kansas City, the children's wing opened in 1926.By 1936, Wheatley-Provident Hospital stood one of the nation's 122 hospitals owned and operated by African Americans and one of only sixteen such hospitals in the country to receive an "A class" rating by the American College of Surgeons. Perry worked at the hospital until he died in 1962. During his six decades of service, Dr. Perry not only treated patients, but he also trained scores of medical professionals. The hospital stayed open for few years after his passing, but the outdated facility no longer proved adequate. By the time it closed in 1972, the hospital had treated more than 50,000 patients. In 1972, Wheatley-Provident closed and moved its operations to the newly-built Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. After sitting vacant for a few years, the abandoned hospital briefly served as a haunted house, known as The Asylum in the '80s and Dr. Deadly's Haunted Hospital in the '90s. In 2012, the building was set on fire twice on the same day. An absentee landlord further led to the building's deterioration, leading the building the be declared a hazardous building and threatened with demolition by 2017. But, a group of investors purchased the building in 2018 to restore the building and preserve its legacy.

Wheatley-Provident Hospital opened in 1918 as Kansas City's first hospital for African American residents in the era of segregation. Construction of this building occurred in 1902 for St. Joseph's Parochial School before its conversion to a hospital that became one of the cornerstones of the city's Black Communities. The hospital's origins also date back to 1902, the year when J. Edward Perry established a hospital and training school for nurses. Known as the Perry Sanitarium in 1910, that institution provided a place for training and employing doctors and nurses in addition to providing the first place where people of color could reliably receive healthcare in an era when hospitals largely barred access to African Americans, sometimes even denying or delaying service in cases where life-saving medical intervention was needed. With the support of Kansas City organizations and philanthropists, Dr. Perry moved his organization to this building which served as the home of Wheatley-Provident hospital from 1918 until 1972. After the 1970s, the building was used as a haunted house before eventually falling into disrepair. A group recently purchased the building to save it from the wrecking ball and they hope to restore the building and return it to service to the community. As a result, the brick building survives as a lasting reminder not only of segregation and exclusion, but also the vital role of Black institutions that served the people of Kansas City.

Wheatley-Provident Hospital

Dr. Alice Berry Graham was born on March 3, 1850, to Stephen and Harriet Berry. Although an advocate against slavery, Stephen moved his family to Kentucky prior to the beginning of the Civil War, where he and his wife refused to condone the actions of the Confederacy. Such beliefs in morality and equal opportunities for all were inherited by both Dr. Graham and Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, her younger sister. Dr. Graham was only 13 years old when her mother passed away, leaving her as a role model for her two younger sisters. After the death of Harriet Barry in 1863, the family moved to Pennsylvania, Stephen's home state, where he remarried. As his daughters grew older, Stephen encouraged them to pursue an education in order to help others and boost their communities. Dr. Graham thus entered into an agreement with her sister, Katharine, so they could both pursue an education: one would work while the other would study until they both received their degrees. Alice entered the workforce first so that Katharine could pursue her education, thus showing her selfless nature. In order to put food on the table and pay the bills, Dr. Graham served as a teacher. After her sister received her degree, Alice began a dental program in Philadelphia. Although struggling financially herself, many community members reported that Dr. Graham would give anything she had left to children in need. In 1890, she was the only woman in a class of over 50 men to graduate from the Philadelphia Dental College and Hospital of Oral Surgery. After graduation, Alice joined her sister in Wisconsin, where she operated a dental practice by 1893.  Wisconsin life was not long-lived for the sisters, however, as they decided to move to Kansas City in the latter half of 1893. While the reason for their move is unclear, some speculate that it could be due to the poor conditions that the city provided for children. Both sisters began operating their practices out of their home in Kansas City, with Dr. Graham focusing on dental practice and Dr. Richardson focusing on medical house calls. Although they had already broken barriers for women in education and medical practice, they struggled to gain solid footing within the medical community in the city, which was filled with male professionals who would not refer patients to female physicians. This did not deter the Berry sisters from helping those in need, however, as they provided care without always charging for their services. With their past budgeting experience while attending school, the Berry sisters were able to keep their respective practices afloat.  Dr. Alice Graham, while already providing necessary services to the community around her, would develop a vision in the late 1890s for a larger mission. While details of the story vary, it is said that in 1897, Dr. Graham came across a young child who was suffering from illness and took her into her and her sister’s care. While caring for this child, Dr. Graham suggested to her sister that caring for children in need could be their contribution to the community. Thus, the Children’s Mercy Hospital was born. It began as the Free Bed Fund, housing only one bed, and the sisters worked tirelessly to gain support from the community. It was their plan to only serve children who could not pay for the services they received. By 1901, the Free Bed Fund was incorporated as an official association, and the sisters opened a nursing school. While Dr. Graham was the mastermind behind the hospital’s founding, as noted by Dr. Katharine Richardson herself, she also used her abilities to organize support from the community, as well as execute fundraisers to keep the hospital afloat. This was highly beneficial for the purchase of the hospital’s first building, which began use in 1903, and was the first time that “Mercy Hospital” had a space all its own.  Dr. Graham started the Messenger newsletter, which was sent out to prominent members of Kansas City as well as newspapers, to gain the monetary support necessary for the hospital’s success. While Dr. Graham diligently worked for the betterment of the hospital, she was diagnosed with cancer in 1904. Rather than remove herself from the operation and rest, she continued to work as a fundraiser and community contact. Unfortunately, Dr. Graham’s health began to decline even more by 1911, causing her to give many of her managerial and leadership roles to other dedicated members of the hospital. While she reduced her leadership roles due to her illness, she continued to write the Messenger, answer questions and give suggestions, and contact community members for potential donations. On May 3, 1913, Dr. Alice Berry Graham passed away after dedicating her life to the service of others. Her efforts, up until her death, paved the way for Children’s Mercy Hospital to serve as a place of healing and comfort for children in need. Her sister, Dr. Katharine Richardson, continued to work tirelessly after the death of Dr. Graham, further propelling their shared dream forward. Upon her insistence, this hospital building, which served the community from 1917 to 1970, included a cornerstone with the following inscription: "In 1897 Dr. Alice Berry Graham founded this hospital for sick and crippled children – to be forever non-sectarian, non-local, and for those who cannot pay."

Dr. Alice Berry Graham, together with her sister Dr. Katherine Berry Richardson, devoted their lives to providing access to medical care for children of all backgrounds in Kansas City and founded the institution that grew into Children's Mercy Hospital. Dr. Alice Berry Graham was the eldest of the two founders, and in recognition of her expertise and effort that led to the development, growth, and success of Children's Mercy until her death at the age of 63 in 1913, her sister insisted that this building, which was home to the hospital from 1917 to 1970, include this cornerstone which recognized the work of her later sister. With a background in multiple areas of the country, and with her sister by her side, Dr. Graham brought a necessary practice to Kansas City in a time where medical care for children had not been a top priority. The care she bestowed upon others, as well as her diligent spirit, lives on in the Children's Mercy Hospital to this day.

Dr. Alice Berry Graham Cornerstone, Mercy Hospital (1917-1970)

General Hospital was designed by local architects Roots &amp; Siemens and Frederick C. Gunn, who decided on a five-story structure featuring a neo-Jacobean design, an early English Renaissance style of architecture. The building opened in 1908 and drew acclaim for its modern facilities, as well as its free-form use of columns, flat roofs, and low walls around balconies and roofs. The building's architecture also borrowed from Elizabethan designs and included scrollwork, strapwork, and lozenges. The architects wanted a clean, yet cheerful comfortable appearance that would be constructed with durable materials but required little maintenance, so they chose a gray vitrified brick that was inexpensive yet attractive and non-absorbent. For the ornamentation, white crystallized limestone was used along with semi-glazed white terracotta that was added to give a bright and cheerful addition. General Hospital consisted of three separate buildings that were connected by hallways. The “administrative wing” was where emergency, surgical, and outpatient services were located. The basement housed the drug store, ambulance entrance, receiving and examination room, emergency operating room, consultation rooms, and waiting rooms. The first floor housed the lab and X-ray rooms and record rooms. Patient wards were located on the second and third floor, while the fourth floor was home to various surgical rooms, including two operating amphitheaters and the library and quarters for nurses and interns. The hospital also included a service wing that housed laundry, kitchens, dining rooms, and the morgue. This wing also held small wards, a main operating room, an assembly room, a post-mortem room, and a “pathological museum”.The wards featured some new innovations in design that demonstrate the growing emphasis on functionality in hospital design. for example, the rooms had rounded corners to provide easier access for gurneys and wheeled beds. The reduction of hard corners also supported modern cleaning protocols that reflected a growing awareness and emphasis on sanitation, while the hardwood floors with marble window sills demonstrated the attention to detail Kansas Citians hoped to see in all aspects of hospital operations. The wards housed specific operations for newborns, another section for children with contagious diseases, and a ward for those with mental illness as well as separate spaces for the care of prisoners or acute alcoholics. The hospital had electric elevators, an ice plant, an electric light plant, and a private switchboard.By the 1920s, the hospital was regularly housing more patients than called for in the original design as the city grew and as more people relied on hospitals for medical care. In response, hospital directors built a new outpatient facility to handle the increased patient load. In 1927, the city added an annex to the 1911 isolation structure and made it the home for tuberculosis patients and male chronic patients. Numerous changes occurred during the 1930s, including the name change to General Hospital No.1 which was newly constructed, and the original building was moved into the hands of the Black community. This took a lot of effort from the Black community leaders, and so they got General Hospital No.2 , its purpose was to serve the African American population in an age where schools, hospitals, parks, and other public facilities were segregated.[4] In 1931 the southwest residence halls were converted into ward space to accommodate 100 more beds. In 1936 a three-story receiving ward was constructed and connected to the isolation building. Even with these and many other renovations and additions, by the mid-1930s, General Hospital regularly struggled to meet demands and by 1937, the hospital was averaging about 400 patients a day. The pattern of renovation and addition continued in the 1940s. In 1957, General Hospital 1 and General Hospital 2 were consolidated in an effort to save money and achieve at least partial integration, but only the former goal was achieved. Budget cuts were made in 1968 which forced the hospital to turn away many patients. During this same era, the growth of the city's medical sector saw more facilities near General Hospital such as UMKC Medical School, the relocation of Children’s Mercy Hospital, and the construction of Truman Medical Center, forming a large health care complex on Hospital Hill. With Truman Medical Center opening in 1976, General Hospital served its final patients. For some, the aging building stood in the way of expansion while others hoped the building could be repurposed. Deciding that the cost of restoring the aging building made such a project less desirable than supporting new construction, demolition of the city's former leading hospital began in the spring of 1991. All but the north wing was demolished at that time, allowing for a last-ditch effort to save and renovate that part of the historic building. This effort proved unsuccessful, and the north wing was demolished in 1992.

General Hospital was completed in 1908 to accommodate Kansas City's growth and the increased reliance by the public on hospitals for medical care. As more people relied on hospitals for medical care, local citizens began an effort to secure public funding for a new hospital and voters approved a bond issue of $225,000 in 1903. Two years later, Colonel Thomas Swope donated 4.5 acres of land atop a hill between Gillham and current-day Kenwood. While constructing the architects realized that the original cost estimates fell short for the hospital to meet the needs of the city. They doubled the beds which doubled the cost. Swope's donation of this land for medical care led to more facilities being constructed in the area and soon the area was known as "Hospital Hill." With newer and larger hospitals being constructed throughout the city, Hospital Hill became home to additional facilities, including Truman Medical Center in 1976, the same year General Hospital served its last patients. The former hospital was demolished in the early 1990s despite efforts by preservationists who hoped at least part of the historic hospital could be repurposed to fit the needs of the city once again.

General Hospital (1908-1976)

University Health was formally known as Truman Medical Center. Around 1957 Truman and General Hospital combined and then became teaching grounds for the University of Missouri - Kansas City students. In 1976 the University's medical school and at the time Truman Medical Center joined together.The Medical center's current president and chief, Charles Shield "joined the system in 208 as chief operating officer of University Health Lakewood Medical Center. He assumed his current role in 2014"[1]The medical center has evolved and grown throughout the years.

University Health is located at Hospital Hill is also know as the University Health Center. The medical center is also the successor to General Hospital. And University Health's predecessor was Truman Medical Center. The current president and chief of University Health is Charlie Shields.[2] The hospital has recived numerous awards with Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), The KC Chamber Champion of Diversity Award just to name a few. [1]

University Health (Truman Medical Center)

The Cabot Clinic was founded in 1906, its prior name was "The St. Luke's Hospital Club" which was a furnished, four-bed children's ward at the Saint Luke's Hospital."Cabot Westside Health Center provides quality, culturally sensitive, bilingual, primary health and educational services to Hispanics, residents of the Westside and the greater Kansas City area, regardless of their ability to pay. Cabot Clinic offers services in adult medicine, chronic disease, dentistry, mental health, pediatrics, pregnancy, and WIC." [2]

Cabot West side Health Center in Kansas City was one that made many firsts for the city, such as in 1918 they "it issued the first birth certificates to babies born in the city. It initiated the first health exams for school-children on the West Side." [1] The health center was a section from Saint Luke's Hospital.

Cabot Westside Health Center

It is stated that the medical center has had a long history of compassionate and quality healthcare. "St.Joseph's is a joint commission of a 310-bed acute care facility providing a wide range of services, including 24-hour Emergency Department, Joint and Spine Institute, surgical services, and outpatient services." [1].The Sisters of St.Joseph of Carondelet were that was branched from their mother community that was formed in the 17th century by a Jesuit priest, Father John Peter Medaille In Le Puy, France. "The community became one of the first "modern" women's congregations, in the sense that its members were dedicated to active work among people in need rather than to the life of prayer and contemplation traditionally practiced by religious women in a cloistered setting." [2] Most of the early members came from the lower class of laborers and farmers in the Massif surrounding Le Puy. As the Sisters moved to the United States they grew as a community and sought to help those in need, and by the mid 1800's, the Sisters responded to the social problems currently troubling the country by opening hospitals and orphanages. "The need for these works of charity was great, since poverty, sickness and death were common among the poor in urban-working class neighborhoods." [2] so In 1874, the Sisters opened St.Joseph's hospital west of the Mississippi river. Father Donnelly was the one who suggested this and aided financially in its early years. 	Once opened the Sisters got to work setting up a course of study and training for the Sisters who were to care for the sick. Which they have expanded and continued to this day/

Founded in 1874 by the Sisters Of St. Joseph of Carondelet and known for its long tradition of providing high quality care. It has a Catholic Heritage and is still present in modern times. The hospital was sold in 2015 to its current owner Prime Healthcare.St.Joseph's Medical Center also houses the "Center For Pharmaceutical Research Center" where various vaccine and other health conditions' research are open for the public to apply for. The medical center also provides care ranging from normal wound care, to breast cancer checks.The old hospital has been granted many awards and recognition for the quality healthcare that they provide.

St. Joseph's Medical Center

St.Luke’s Hospital Of Kansas City was originally founded by an Episcopal priest by the name of Rev. Henry David Jardine. He convened a meeting within Kansas City and with its business men to encourage better healthcare in the sense of hospitals. From this, a hospital was built around 1882 and operated for about 11 years before closing and reopening as Saint Luke’s Hospital Of Kansas City. The Epsicopal Diocese of West Missouri’s first bishop, Rev. Edward Atwill became the sponsor of Saint Luke’s. Currently, The Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri maintains that oversight with the bishop serving as chairman of Saint Luke’s Board Of Directors. In 1997 it was the only hospital in the nation to receive the National Quality Healthcare Award.In 2011, Saint Luke's Hospital treated itself with a 392,000-square-foot expansion. Which provided a "new home for its Mid America Heart Institute and putting the facility in what hospitals hope is a good position for the future demands of health care reform and changing technology." [2] This expansion was finished with a tower as the final piece of this $330 million project. [2] The tower included the "Muriel Kauffman Women's Heart Center for Women's Care, both of which were dedicated last year (2010)" [2]. The excavation for the expansion started in 2004 with the construction of art of the building near the Country Club Plaza. Expanded features included: 134 patient beds, nursing stations that served two rooms at a time, procedure rooms that were all located on the same floor which were the operating rooms, catheterization labs, and "hybrid" rooms in which cardiologists and surgeons care for their patients side by side, three "healing gardens", and a hospital cafeteria that "resembles a mall food court." [2]The CEO who oversaw the expansion, G. Richard Hastings, retired in 2011 to go teach at a Baptist seminary and help build political support in Israel. His career at the hospital was more than 36 years, including 15 of those spent as the CEO. During his time there the health organization grew to "8,500 employees at its 11 hospitals, along with doctors' offices and clinics."[3] Along with this he was recognized for his work to improve relations between Christians and Jews, taking multiple trips to Israel over the span of two decades. His statement to the Kansas City Star was "I have a chance now to make my avocation my vocation." [3] With his retirement, Saint Luke's selected their new CEO who was the chief executive of the Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington Vermont, along with being a neurologist, Melinda L Estes. In an interview she said she was "impressed and intrigued" about coming to Saint Luke's which she had stated was "a large, well-managed health system." [4] Currently, Shane Cerone is the CEO of Saint Luke's which became effective as of October 1st, 2020. [1]

Established in 1882, St. Luke’s Hospital has grown into one of the largest hospital systems in the Midwest with over sixteen locations that serve 67 counties centered around Kansas City. This hospital system, which now employs over twelve thousand, began when Reverend David Jardine called a meeting at his church and asked business and civic leaders to support the establishment of a hospital. That original facility operated for eleven years and was followed by a hospital operated by the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri. The hospital remains non-profit and is operated by a board of directors with the bishop of the diocese serving as the chairman of that board.

Hospitals Of Kansas City Through The Years

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