Children's Mercy Kansas City • March 3 2026

GeoMarker app offers new insights around social determinants of health

Diet is important, of course. So is sleep, exercise and avoiding tobacco products. But what about your neighborhood? A patient’s address can reveal a lot about the health risks, resources and contextual factors that impact medical outcomes...

Children's Mercy Kansas City • March 3 2026

Pectus Carinatum: Rogan’s Story

What started as “a little bump” in the left center of his chest had slowly grown over time, and Rogan’s local pediatrician suggested surgery as the best option for a more permanent result. After some watchful waiting and additional conversations, Rogan’s parents worked with the doctor to identify the growing bump as pectus carinatum – also known as “pigeon chest” – a deformity that pushes the sternum out...

Children's Mercy Kansas City • March 3 2026

Tiny heart, beating strong: Open-heart surgery at 3 months old

Parents Tanner and Katerina haven’t been sleeping well.
Their youngest, Johnny, is about 2 years old and teething, keeping them up. But Amanda McIntosh, MD, his pediatric cardiologist, couldn’t be happier about it...

Liberty Hospital Connections Magazine • November 4 2024

Fighting back by looking good

While three of the women here are bald (nothing has grown past a quarter inch anyway), they also laugh, smile, commiserate and encourage as one woman experiments with various headgear. She volunteered to
be the model, so they try wigs, scarves, even an orange T-shirt that’s tied to look like a turban.

Liberty Hospital Connections Magazine • November 4 2024

Former patient now matches others with robotic surgery

Pain tends to have very bad timing. At age 27, Elizabeth Carpenter was married, working, going to school, all while trying to keep up with her three-year-old. Not a lot of time for endometriosis.

Children's Mercy Kansas City • November 4 2024

Skin-to-skin ‘kangaroo care’ improves lives of premature babies (and their parents)

Cords and wires. Feeding tubes, IVs, a PICC line. A room full of nurses, a respiratory therapist, extra pillows. Brianna Schmitz was surrounded when she first got to hold one of her premature twin sons, yet felt terrified as he was transferred into her arms.

Patient Resource Women's Cancer Guide • July 10 2015

Caregiving advice for men

She’s no medical expert. Neither are you. But together you’ll make lots of decisions – with the help of your health care team, of course – and your job is to help her decide and then support her decision.

Liberty Hospital Connections Magazine • September 16 2009

Tennis Training Program Serves up Winning Regimen

It turns out developing a killer backhand doesn’t start on the tennis court but in a gym with a medicine ball.