Children's Mercy Kansas City SHARE @ Children's Mercy Children's Mercy Annual Reports Who we are 11-2017 Children's Mercy Annual Report 2017 Children's Mercy Hospital Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/cmh-annual-reports Part of the Health and Medical Administration Commons, and the Pediatrics Commons Recommended Citation Children's Mercy Hospital, "Children's Mercy Annual Report 2017" (2017). Children's Mercy Annual Reports. 12. https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/cmh-annual-reports/12 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Who we are at SHARE @ Children's Mercy. It has been accepted for inclusion in Children's Mercy Annual Reports by an authorized administrator of SHARE @ Children's Mercy. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Kit | 5 years old | Olathe For children. For families. For answers. Children's Mercy Annual Report 2017 Meet Kit: From Chemo to Kindergarten Thanks to Research and Personalized Medicine “Childhood cancer isn’t just bald kids beaming down from billboards,” Mary Kate said. “Simple, every day moments now aren’t ‘every day’ to us. We cherish each one as part of Kit’s healing.” Thankfully, scientific investigation and personalized medicine helped save Kit’s life. Committed to finding answers for children and families, Children’s Mercy will also never stop asking questions … questions like, “What if Kit and her family didn’t have to lose that time while she struggled through heart- wrenching pain? What if childhood diseases like the acute lymphoblastic leukemia that invaded Kit’s tiny body were eliminated and children didn’t have to suffer at all? What if her family Kit and her family cherish ‘simple every day moments.’ never had to say, ‘She’s still not out of the woods’ and wonder and worry every single day?” Kit doesn’t remember life without chemotherapy. For good reason. The 5-year-old old just started kindergarten this fall after her first chemo-free summer in more than two years. Since age 3, Kit has endured more than 20 spinal taps, multiple blood transfusions, surgeries and dozens of hospital admissions. She spent 859 days undergoing chemotherapy at Children’s Mercy and finished her final treatment on June 17. “Kit received the best possible cancer care we could’ve imagined. Children’s Mercy is a true gem we’re so very lucky to have here,” said Mary Kate Van Sickle, Kit’s mom. Still, parents Mary Kate and Corey stress that the journey has not been all roses. Open sores on Kit’s little fingers Photography by Allison French of Allison Corrin Photography | allisoncorrin.com and toes and detached nails were painful side effects of monthly chemotherapies she received via a chest port. Periodically, she had to undergo anesthetic for a lumbar puncture that injected chemo into her spinal fluid. Simple, every day moments now aren’t“ “‘every day’ to us. We cherish each one as part of Kit’s healing. Mary Kate Van Sickle Highlights: Fiscal Year ‘17 The Cardiac High Acuity Monitoring Program (CHAMP) was in the spotlight the entire year … first during a presentation at Microsoft’s annual employee conference at Disney World in Orlando; in October as the winner of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s 2016 Magnet Prize, which provided Children’s Mercy founders Alice $50,000 to further develop CHAMP; Berry Graham and Katharine Berry and in February as a recipient of Richardson were named members The documentary “Inside Pediatrics” Microsoft Corporation’s 2017 Health of the 2017 class of the Starr Innovation Award. earned Children’s Mercy a second Children’s Mercy Pediatric Intensive Women’s Hall of Fame at the Emmy award for outstanding Care Unit earned a Silver University of Missouri–Kansas City. programming from the National Beacon Award from the Academy of Television Arts and American Association of Critical- Sciences. The episode titled “The Crib seizure pads Care Nurses. Heart of Children’s Mercy” followed and Bereavement the journeys of two heart transplant Bears were voted patients. as the top ideas at the first SPARK (Sparking Pediatric For children. For families. For answers.SM Advancement A new marketing campaign and Revolutionizing Kids’ Health) was launched with the tagline, “For Employee Innovation Bash, which children. For families. For answers.” It showcased 23 innovative ideas features what sets our hospital apart submitted by Children’s Mercy from all the rest. employees. July August September October Children’s Mercy announced that 2016 it will join with Olathe Medical Center to expand pediatric services in the southwestern part of the metropolitan area. Ground was broken for the new Children’s Mercy Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center that will Nick & Jake’s Fore the Kids be part of Sporting KC’s National Golf Tournament and the Auto Soccer Training Center in western Dealers Association donated two Wyandotte County. ambulances to the hospital. Children’s Mercy and The University of Kansas Cancer Center announced four endowed chair appointments that will help make Kansas City a global pediatric research innovation hub. The endowed chairs, made possible by $10 million in philanthropic support, will focus on genomics, Hoops for Hope basketball health outcomes, hematological tournament increased the number malignancies and immunotherapy. of participating high schools from three to six and raised $58,000 for The 2017 Red Hot Night Gala Children’s Mercy. shattered previous records, raising more than $2 million. November January February March Children’s Mercy was named by the The Joint Commission conducted 2017 National Association for Business triennial surveys for Kansas Resources as one of the “Nation’s locations in March, followed by Made possible by donor-funding, Best and Brightest in Wellness in Missouri locations and Children’s Michael Artman, MD, (chief of 2016.” Mercy Home Care in May. Surveyors Pediatrics) and Tom Curran, were highly complimentary of PhD, FRS, (head of the Children’s our facilities and extraordinary Research Institute) were named staff and our journey toward as the first Eminent Scholars becoming a “High Reliability in the 120-year history of Organization.” Children’s Mercy. $24.95 About the Author Th omas McCormally is a natural-born For All storyteller. His father was a Pulitzer Prize- winner and his mother was the prize-winner’s fi rst editor, as well as a Head Start teacher. CHILDREN McCormally graduated from the University of Everywhere Iowa with degrees in journalism and political science; he received a master’s in journalism EVERYWHERE ALL CHILDREN FOR at the University of Kansas. A former newspaperman himself, McCormally worked at suburban Kansas City papers 1897-2017 as a reporter, editor On the eve of the 20th century, two sisters, and columnist for each with a big heart and an indomitable will, set nearly two decades. out to care for Kansas City’s neediest children. Since 1994 he has Th ey began with one little girl. Th en they helped worked in hospital a couple more children, and then a dozen and public relations, for then scores and hundreds of victims of abuse, Children’s Mercy birth defects, accidents and illness. With no help Kansas City and from public subsidies or insurers, they treated all for Cincinnati comers with any hope of recovery – but only as Children’s Hospital long as their patients were too poor to pay. Th at’s Medical Center. In 2015, he became the fi rst how Alice Berry Graham and Katharine Berry Director of Archives for Children’s Mercy and Richardson started an institution that has grown set out to write this book and preserve and tell For All into a part of the soul of Kansas City: Children’s the Children’s Mercy story. He and his wife live Mercy. in Mission, Kansas. Th ey have three daughters and six grandchildren, who provide plenty of CHILDREN For All Children Everywhere is a story of fodder for stories. Everywhere unending love and persistence on the part of two sisters, of the people who followed them and of On the eve of the 20th century, two For All the community that took their mission to heart. Cover illustrations — Front: Right, 1920s patient; sisters, each with a big heart and an Today, 12 decades aft er its humble start as “Th e top left , Nurse Amber Hunley and patient; indomitable will, set out to care for Hospital of the Little People,” Children’s Mercy center left , Dr. Bradley A. Warady and Katrina Kansas City’s neediest children. Alice still brings healing to the poor, but also hope victim. Berry Graham and Katharine Berry to all children and families of the city and the Back. Top: 21st-century entrance. Collage, Richardson gave birth to an institution region. top row from left : Alice Berry Graham, 1910s that has grown into a part of the soul of nurses, Katharine Berry Richardson; middle Kansas City: Children’s Mercy. CHILDREN row from left : surgery in 1989, celebrity visitor Today, 12 decades aft er its humble start About the title “Hopalong Cassidy” (William Boyd) in the as “Th e Hospital of the Little People,” Th e founders of Children’s Mercy declared their 1950s, researcher in 2003; bottom row from Children’s Mercy still brings healing to Everywhere hospital to be for children regardless of their left : nurse Bertha Clift on and Burn Unit patient the poor, but also hope to all children and address, their religion or their pocketbooks. In Penny Johnson in 1989, nurse Kimberly Reid families of the city and the region. McCormally the 1920s, when racial segregation ruled in public and Christine M. Robertsen, MD, and a patient life, the leaders of the hospital believed they in the neonatal follow-up clinic.