The University of Missouri - Kansas City Graduate Medical Education System is made up of five of the best hospitals in Kansas City. All of these hospitals are well respected and carry many awards. Truman Medical Centers recently were named as the #5 top academic center in the nation by UHC Criteria. Hospital website.

Truman Medical Center-Lakewood is the home base for our program. Located in a country setting on the eastern edge of Kansas City, we are located adjacent to one of the safest and most desirable places to live in the United States, Lee's Summit, MO.

The perfect venue for training primary care physicians, residents and faculty physicians are the primary medical staff of the hospital. A community hospital and long-term care facility provides a full range of diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services. Within the Department of Community & Family Medicine there are consulting internists, pediatricians and psychiatrists, and a Pharm D is available for consultation.

We have an addition to our hospital that includes an emergency room and inpatient floors. Patients are able to have their own rooms with lots of amenities, and the rounding room we use is state of the art with equipment to view electronic charts, x-rays etc.

Our Family Medicine clinic was recently remodeled and includes nice exam rooms and a large common area where all of the residents and faculty can interact during clinic hours. We have more hospital out patient visits than any other K.C. hospital, and all HCA Midwest hospitals combined. We have 26,000 visits per year in our clinic and 17% of those are pediatric patients.

Additionally, we have a well stocked library with a medicall librarian who assists in finding any articles that may be needed. We have a Resident's Lounge and call rooms, affectionately known as 'Doctors' Quarters'.

Truman Medical Center-Hospital Hill embodies the legacy of health care 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 ER visits (54,000) 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.

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. 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 Asthma Clinical Research Center, a cooperative effort created in partnership with the American Lung Association, Children's Mercy Hospital and the UMKC School of Medicine, is one of 19 research centers in the country promoting clinical research in adult and pediatric asthma. Clinical research activities with adult patients are conducted in the Adult Pulmonary Clinic at TMC Hospital Hill. It also provides ICU and new born intensive care rotations for the Family Medicine Residency.

Children's Mercy Hospital has been providing exclusive medical service to children for more than 100 years. CMH today provides the highest level of medical care, technology, services, equipment and facilities all tailored to meet the intricate needs of our pediatric patients. Child magazine ranked Children's Mercy as one of the 10 best children's hospitals in America in 2003, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center has awarded Children's Mercy its rare Magnet designation for the high quality of patient care.

Physicians representing more than 40 pediatric specialties care for children who come from a 150-county region in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. The hospital is nationally recognized in:

• cardiac surgery
• transplantation
• nephrology
• neonatalogy and more

Children's Mercy is the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the region and one of the three busiest neonatal/pediatric transport programs in the nation. It has a total of 241 beds, with 40 percent of the inpatient beds devoted to critical care.

The hospital provides treatments, tests and surgeries rarely found outside large university medical centers. The Children's Mercy system includes the main hospital and outpatient center on Hospital Hill; Children's Mercy South in Overland Park, KS; five primary care clinics in inner city locations; 20 outreach specialty clinics throughout the region; and a home health program. The Children's Mercy research program is nationally recognized, particularly in the fields of clinical pharmacology, genetics, and neonatology.

Children's Mercy has programs in child advocacy, community violence prevention, managed care, inpatient hospitalists, behavioral and developmental pediatrics, clinical pharmacology (with its own clinical research unit), molecular genetics, alternative medicine, international pediatrics and other non-traditional programs that are emerging in importance.

Hospital investigators are involved in a dramatic research vision that includes laboratory research in genetics, cancer, neonatology, immunology and nursing. The hospital is one of seven National Institutes of Health-funded Pediatric Pharmacology Research Units in the country studying the effects of pharmaceuticals on children.

Children's Mercy Hospital delivers a wide array of pediatric programs outside its own walls through Children's Mercy South, a pediatric inpatient, outpatient, surgical, urgent care facility in Overland Park, Kansas, and outreach clinics throughout Missouri and Kansas. The Children's Mercy Hospital system offers one of the largest pediatric outpatient centers in the country.

Family Medicine residents and pediatric residents function as part of the health care team on Pediatric ER and Inpatient rotations. Residents receive extensive patient care training in pediatrics, as well as educational opportunities equaled by few facilities in the U.S.

Western Missouri Mental Health Center, an agency for the Department of Mental Health, is located on Hospital Hill in the heart of Kansas City to provide comprehensive psychiatric care.

WMMHC offers services in alcoholism, drug, family, group and individual counseling, crisis intervention, group psychiatric therapy, and suicide prevention as well as hospital inpatient care, mental health aftercare and psychiatric care. The hospital also offers an inpatient program to provide treatment for mentally ill patients who have co-occurring substance abuse problems.

Faculty in the department of psychiatry also provide clinical services at Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health, which offers outpatient services.

WMMHC opened in 1954 as the first racially integrated psychiatric hospital in Kansas City to serve patients of the city hospital system. Today, a full-time faculty provides clinical service at the 115-bed center with more than 200 patient admissions a month and more than 7,000 emergency room visits annually, specializing in active treatment for the most acute and the seriously ill.

WMMHC also operates a number of group homes in the community. By maintaining a close relationship with a wide array of community agencies, in particular the Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health Network, a variety of outpatient services are available at WMMHC and throughout Hospital Hill such as forensic pre-trial assessment, psychological testing, psychotherapy, and medication management.

The center has been recognized for its innovative, comprehensive services and, most recently, received Accreditation with Commendation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. This is the highest level of accreditation awarded by the Joint Commission, the nation's oldest and largest accrediting body.