Childrens Mercy Hospital

Programs: All expenses for program services relate to providing healthcare. There were a total of 354 licensed beds and 89,370 patient days during the year from 14,369 admissions. Interim stays totaled 8,993 and outpatient encounters, including ed and urgent care, were 582,884. There were a total of 20,163 surgical cases which includes 4,307 inpatient and 15,856 outpatient cases. Diagnostic procedures, tests and treatments totaled 1,207,966 and outpatient prescriptions totaled 162,453. Children's mercy critical care transports totaled 5,415 in fiscal year 2017. The children's mercy hospital (the hospital) consists of a 301-bed teaching hospital for children located in kansas city, missouri, and a 53-bed hospital for children located in overland park, kansas. Children's mercy hospital provides the highest level of medical care, technology, services, equipment, and facilities promoting the health and well-being of children in the region, from birth through adolescence. Patients and their families are treated with compassion in a family-centered environment that recognizes their physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual needs. The comprehensive healthcare environment provided by the hospital includes clinical services, research, and teaching efforts, which are designed to serve today's and tomorrow's children, and the community in which they live. The hospital's services are available to all regardless of ability to pay.

children's mercy hospital (cmh) is dedicated to becoming a leader in pediatric translational research. A recent strategic planning initiative established the children's research institute to focus on research and research infrastructure. Cmh initiated a planning process in preparation for making a commitment of a nearly $200 million to the construction of a new research building. Cmh has already invested $4. 1 million on design of the new building as part of the preparation. This commitment will lead to breakthroughs in treating, diagnosing and preventing complex childhood diseases. Research conducted today at cmh includes basic science and clinical research in numerous areas including pharmacology, cancer, cardiology, genetic diseases and health outcomes. Areas of research strength include clinical pharmacology and therapeutic innovation, genomics medicine, health services and outcomes and innovations in health care delivery. During the year ended june 30, 2017 there were more than 342 active sponsored research projects. The children's research institute occupies about 3% of the space on the main campus and is 3% of the total annual operating budget. Children's mercy spent $43. 9 million in the year ended june 30, 2017 on research and per information from the nih reporter received more than $4. 5 million in nih funding in this same time period. More than 900 publications were accepted and/or published. The children's research institute provides seed funding to investigators with internal competitive grant programs such as the midwest cancer alliance and the katherine berry richardson (kbr) fund, with expectations that this funding will lead to applications for externally funded grant programs in the future.