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Richard Nolan, a 74-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, is a longtime patient at Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants. Over the years, he has been treated for claudication, a painful condition caused by reduced blood flow to the calf muscles during exercise. But when his symptoms worsened in July 2025, he was scheduled for surgery at Saint Luke’s East Hospital.

U.S. News & World Report has named eight BJC Health hospitals as 2026 High Performing hospitals for Maternity Care—the highest award a hospital can earn as part of its Best Hospitals for Maternity Care annual study.

In 2017, Charles Koslowsky, 70, learned he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer. It had metastasized to his liver.

Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related death in the United States—and diagnosing the disease early is critical in improving survival rates.

Now, on the 14th anniversary of her diagnosis, Kelly, 43, is cancer free and grateful for the care she received at Saint Luke's East Hospital in Lee's Summit and Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.

The Kansas City Business Journal named Darren Bass, DPT, FACHE, president of Saint Luke’s North and Critical Access Region, as one of its 20 health care professionals to know in the Kansas City area in 2025.

While the mortality rate for breast cancer in the U.S. has significantly declined from its peak in 1989, incidence among younger women has steadily increased each year since 2001, according to the American Cancer Society.