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Advance directives allow you to document your wishes today so your family won't have to make heart-wrenching decisions later. These directives are written in advance of serious illness.

Information on the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship at the University of Missouri–Kansas City/Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute.

Advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPE) at Saint Luke's are scheduled in two or three month blocks. The block contains multiple rotations so that a student generally spends a month on one practice site before switching to a new practice site for the next month.

Saint Luke’s one-year postgraduate Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program is designed to help strengthen, advance, and expand clinical nursing skills.

The Saint Luke’s Health System is committed to on-going professional growth of its employees and community. We offer preceptorships to advanced practice students and graduate nursing students

 

Advancing neuroscience research—a key goal at Saint Luke's has received a generous boost thanks to Kansas City, Missouri, resident Pat Brinker.

On the day of her heart surgery at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Katie Edwards, 29, remembers that she and her husband, Will, were prepared to hear some difficult news.

Pat Carey has an exact replica of the football used in Superbowl LIV. Through the good seasons and bad, Pat has always been an avid Kansas City Chiefs fan. No matter how many losses the team racked up in the 80s and 90s, he was one of the few who never lost hope.

When Maribeth Kammert first learned she had cancer in 2015, her world came to a stop. It was early stage breast cancer. “I was at Beauty Brands with my mom when I got the call. I went into the bathroom because I didn’t know how I would react. I didn’t cry,” said Maribeth. “I just had this instinct that I was going to take care of it, and God was going to take care of me. And if the outcome wasn’t what I wanted, I’d be okay with that.”

This past March, Dorothy Esser, 71, had a casual phone conversation with a friend. About 15 minutes later, her vision started to blur and her legs felt weak. Dorothy was active and hadn’t had significant health concerns, so this feeling was out of the ordinary.