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General Information

The Emergency Department (ED) treats patients with a wide variety of urgent and non-urgent needs, from major trauma to the common cold. We are the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

The ED has 28 beds, including:

  • 6 resuscitation rooms, including 2 trauma rooms
  • 11 urgent care rooms
  • a 4-bed observation bay
  • a 7-room minor care clinic

Our patients range in age from neonates to 18+ years.

We provide services 24-hours a day/7-days a week.

We work with the Emergency Department physicians and APNs, plus any of our medical or surgical teams that are consulted to care for our patients.

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