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Truman Medical Center - Hospital Hill
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill embodies the legacy of health care on Hospital Hill that began with the opening of City Hospital in 1872. Today, the 250-bed medical center is recognized for its broad range of acute and outpatient care. TMC Hospital Hill has the highest number of emergency visits - 60,000 - of any health care institution in the metropolitan area. It also boasts a neo-natal intensive care nursery and extensive women's health care services.

Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill is also noted for its:

• Level I Trauma Center
• The Birthplace (22-bed LDRP)
• Sickle Cell Resource Center
• HIV/AIDS Services
• Eye Foundation
• High Risk Obstetrics

The population at TMC Hospital Hill provides residents with ample and diverse educational and research opportunities. Residents are responsible for patient management under the supervision of senior residents, attending physicians, and a full complement of consultant subspecialists. More than 11,500 patients are admitted annually with more than 212,000 outpatient visits.

Residents who work with the center's diverse patient population find a vast array of educational and research opportunities at TMC Hospital Hill, where they are responsible for patient management under the supervision of senior residents, attending physicians and a full complement of consultant sub-specialists.

TMC Hospital Hill, Truman Medical Center Lakewood and Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health Network make up the Truman Medical Centers network.

Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Founded in 1882, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City is the largest hospital in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Affiliated with the Diocese of West Missouri of the Protestant Episcopal Church, it is a non-profit comprehensive teaching and referral health care organization that provides 24-hour coverage in every health care discipline. Other facilities include the Mid America Heart Institute, the Mid America Brain and Stroke Institute, an ambulatory surgery center, an outpatient care center, and a nursing college. Annual revenue totals $937 million with more than 3,000 employees and 500 physicians.

Recognized in 2003 with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Saint Luke’s Health System, a not-for-profit integrated health system with nine hospitals and several physician practices in the Kansas City metropolitan and surrounding areas. Saint Luke’s Hospital is a 623-bed tertiary care hospital with a network of 500 physicians and nearly 60 medical specialties.

In addition to providing quality care, Saint Luke’s Health System is committed to education and research. It is an active center of medical education and a primary teaching hospital for the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. One of Saint Luke’s Hospital’s many strengths is the Mid America Heart Institute, which is world-renowned for its work in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. As the region's premier cardiac center, the Heart Institute also supports an active heart transplant program.

Children's Mercy Hospital
Children's Mercy Hospital serves as a referral center for the entire region and is the only comprehensive children's hospital in the state. The General Pediatric Surgical Service is responsible for a majority of the complicated pediatric surgical care in the state. During the last year, there were more than 1200 admissions to this service and operations performed. A Fellow in Pediatric Surgery is selected in a national match every other year to serve for two years. In addition, our residents from general surgery rotate through this important service during their second year.

Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Part of VA Heartland Network, the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center provides acute medical, surgical, neurological, psychiatric and rehabilitation medicine for the veterans of the Kansas City area. It is a Center of Excellence and referral center for the Network and works closely with the Medical Centers in Leavenworth, Topeka, and Wichita, Kansas. Specialty services include audiology, cardiac catheterization, sine-angiography, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, renal transplants, vascular laboratory services, and specialized low vision care. The Kansas City VAMC is a 157-bed facility located on a 40 acre campus in eastern Kansas City. This is a major metropolitan area with a population exceeding 1.5 million. The primary service area includes over 200,00 veterans, some 25 percent of whom are over 60. Affiliations are with University of Missouri - Kansas City and University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Truman Medical Center - Lakewood
Located among the rolling hills of southeastern Kansas City, Truman Medical Center - Lakewood has been providing services to the area since the 1850's. Today the old and new have converged to provide comprehensive healthcare in this fast growing community.

TMC Lakewood is the setting for the UMKC School of Medicine’s Department of Community and Family Medicine. Facilities like the Bess Truman Family Practice Clinic, Lakewood Family Healthcare, the H & R Block Baby Center and the Lakewood Care Center mean TMC Lakewood can serve people throughout their lives. TMC Lakewood has 102 patient care beds with an additional 212 beds in the Long Term Care Center.   During rotation here, residents are exposed to a private practice type of general surgical environment.

TMC Lakewood is one of three major institutions, in conjunction with Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill and Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health Network, that make up Truman Medical Centers, a network of facilities offering comprehensive health care services.

Research Medical Center
Research Medical Center serves as an academic affiliate for rotations in Transplant and Acute Care Surgery.