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Children’s Mercy is recognized as one of America’s best children’s hospitals by U.S. News and World Report, ranking in all 10 pediatric specialties. Learn more about how we care for pediatric patients with expert care.

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For more than 125 years Children’s Mercy Kansas City has been taking care of kids. With more than 8,600 caring experts in their health system, you can always find someone to help. From their level 1 surgery center to their comprehensive solid organ transplant center to their pediatric only urgent care centers.

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Children's Mercy has been around for more than 125 years. The hospital originally started with 2 sisters on New Year's Eve of the 20th century. The two girls' names were Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson and Dr. Alice Berry Graham. They were the people who founded Children’s Mercy Hospital and I wanted to help the community. 12 decades ago, the hospital was named “The Hospital of the Little People.” In the 1920s, Children’s Mercy found a way to treat “non-white people” even through the segregation laws. Even though Children’s Mercy started with just two girls, they were able to create an international business even with no help from any insurers or public subsidies.

In February of 2021, The Children’s Mercy Research Institute Tower was declared open. So far Children’s Mercy has enrolled over 10,000 researchers, and diagnosed more than 1,000 rare diseases. Children’s Mercy is even part of the world’s leaders in therapeutics, genomics, ethics, and precision. Children’s Mercy is 1 of the 30 hospitals in the nation to be verified as a level 1 child’s surgery center. Children’s Mercy has 8,821 staff members, 778 pediatric specialists, and 869 volunteers. Children's Mercy is ranked number 1 in Missouri, with over 390 beds inside. Over 600 hundred medical students from all around the world come to visit Children’s Mercy.

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Children's Mercy speaks 115 different languages.

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Children's Mercy has completed about 19,469 surgical cases.

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In 2013, over 600,00 children were reported to be victims of abuse or neglect.

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Children's Mercy is in all 50 states around the U.S.

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Children's Mercy has about 600 medical students.

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23.8% of 1-4 year old's are at children's Mercy.

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There are more than 1,000 rare disease diagnoses by Children's Mercy.

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This is my website for my Service Project.

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Service quote "No matter what happens in life. be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind." By Taylor Swift

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This is my website supporting Children's Mercy Hospital.

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Service Quote: "If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." -Beyonce

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Do you want to donate to Children's Mercy Hospital? Well you are in luck! You can donate to Children's Mercy Hospital by shopping for the items that are on the Children's Mercy wish list, packaging them into bags for the children called Happy Kits, and delivering the bags to Children's Mercy. Another way you can help is by donating. You can donate by saving money and writing a check out to Children's Mercy. Or, you can do what we did! We not only saved $489 from just a lemonade stand, but we also bought things off of their wish list. Your can also take a look at their "Ways to Help" website.

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You Believe in More Moments for Kids

As we navigate our new normal, you can shine a light of hope for kids and families. We invite you to join our community of champions to make an impact. Whether your gift helps provide a diagnosis that wasn't available yesterday through cutting-edge research, trains a new nurse, or provides a cozy blanket to a sick child, giving helps families when they need it most.

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As we navigate our new normal, you can shine a light of hope for kids and families. We invite you to join our community of champions to make an impact. Whether your gift helps provide a diagnosis that wasn't available yesterday through cutting-edge research, trains a new nurse, or provides a cozy blanket to a sick child, giving helps families when they need it most.

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Children's Mercy Hospital is one of the first to deliver a high-risk baby in a children's hospital.

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Our action plan is to conduct a lemonade stand at Loose Park from 12:00 pm-3:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7, 2024. At our lemonade stand, Liv and I will sell cookies, a variety of chips, regular lemonade, and also pink lemonade. With the money Liv and I hope to make at our lemonade sale, we are going to purchase items off the Children’s Mercy wishlist. Once we have bought everything, we will fill little backpacks with the items for all of the little kids. We will then deliver the Happy Kits to as many children as we can.

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Children's Mercy has about 390 beds.

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Children's Mercy has been around since 1897.

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The founders of Children's Mercy are Dr. Alice Berry Graham and her sister Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson.

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Do you want to volunteer at Children's Mercy? Here are some ways you can provide service, via volunteering, at Children's Mercy Hospital. On the website linked above, you can find a "Choose Your Opportunity" portion of the page. There you can choose to volunteer as an adult, a college student, a high school student, a junior, or even a person with a disability! Children's Mercy welcomes anyone who shows interest in helping the foundation, no matter what age you are.

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Imagine the Potential

Every day, our incredible volunteers - community members just like you - make a difference in the lives of patients and families at Children's Mercy in a variety of ways.

You, too, can become a volunteer and help children and families right here in your community!

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Every day, our incredible volunteers - community members just like you - make a difference in the lives of patients and families at Children's Mercy in a variety of ways. You, too, can become a volunteer and help children and families right here in your community!

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Children's Mercy won an award for Newsweek's "American's being Best Children's Hospital 2023."

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Paul Kempinski is the CEO and President of Children's Mercy Hospital.

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Children's Mercy covers about 150 county areas in Kansas City and Missouri.

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Children's Mercy has about 8,000+ employees that work there.