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KCTV: Missouri Pastor Reflects on Kidney Transplant During Donate Life Month
A now-retired pastor spent years waiting for a kidney transplant after a near-fatal experience with COVID-19.
Tuesday Robb Named Hedrick Medical Center Employee of the Quarter–First Quarter 2025
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. — Tuesday Robb, a medical office specialist in Radiology at Hedrick Medical Center, was honored as the hospital's Employee of the Quarter for first quarter of 2026. Catherine Hamilton, administrator, presented the award to Robb at a ceremony held in her honor.
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The New York Times: Tennis vs. Pickleball: What’s a Better Workout?
Tennis is often ranked as one of the world’s healthiest sports—but what about pickleball? A Saint Luke's cardiologist weighs in.
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A Match Made in Denver: One Kidney Patient’s Transplant Journey
In 2023, 33-year-old Candice Blankenship of Carthage, Missouri, got sick with pneumonia. After days of rest and over-the-counter medication, she began having trouble breathing and went to her local Emergency Department for help. What Candice didn’t expect was a life-changing diagnosis that would eventually take her to Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City for a transplant.
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FOX 4: Living Kidney Donation From Stranger Saves Metro Woman's Life
Performed with the assistance of a surgical robot, the surgery became the first living kidney donor transplant of its kind performed at Saint Luke’s.
Volunteers: Honoring the Heart of our Hospital
Each April, Volunteer Appreciation Week reminds us to pause and reflect on all the ways our hospital volunteers support our mission to serve our patients and communities.
Volunteers organized what is now the Allen County Regional Hospital Auxiliary in the early 1950s, not long after Allen County Hospital first opened its doors a few blocks east of Iola’s downtown.
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KCTV: April is Donate Life Month
Every 8 minutes another American is added to the transplant waiting list for organs or tissue.
Jimmie Chooses Quality and Quantity After Stage IV Colon Cancer
When Jimmie Kinder, 55, was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, he felt he had to choose between living well and living longer. Today, as Jimmie prepares for a national pool tournament, he is focused on living the most functional life he can while continuing treatment at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute.
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Health News You Can Use: Donate Life Month
This April is the 23rd celebration of Donate Life Month, established in 2003 to raise awareness for the life-saving impact of organ and tissue donation.
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KC Waitress Served Kansas City’s Biggest Givers. After Her Brain Tumor, Their Gift Served Her.
Jo Ellen Rupp, 56 on a hospital bed with her husband standing to her right side As Jo Ellen Rupp, 56, was leaving Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute, she stopped in front of the sign that featured the Bloch name.