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When Aria Larson started working in the operating room at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, she saw excellence all around her. If she needed care, she thought, this was where she would go.

After 5-year-old Hildie Platter was diagnosed with selective mutism a year and a half ago, her mother, Janette Platter, turned to The Children's SPOT (Speech, Physical, and Occupational Therapy) for rehabilitative speech services through play therapy.

On top of helping the unit run smoothly, Easton Thomas uses her downtime and own money to handmake Halloween costumes for babies staying in the NICU.

Nearly 100 former Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) babies, along with their parents and siblings, returned to Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City to celebrate success and resilience at the annual NICU reunion.

Retired middle school teacher Teresa Janvrin faced her biggest challenge yet when a nonmalignant spinal cord tumor left her unable to walk in 2023.

Even though their baby's first Christmas may not look like they expected, Saint Luke's wants to bring some normalcy and make sure it is still extra special with a little help from the March of Dimes, a volunteer photographer, and one very special VIP.

KMBC talks with a family from Arizona who delivered at Saint Luke's prematurely, Santa, and the nurse manager about what these special moments mean.

Rafael and his mom, Cecilia, came back to the NICU to show thanks for what the doctors and nurses did to help save his life after being born at just 22 weeks old.

Some of Kansas City’s tiniest babies celebrated their first Halloween a little early being dressed up, thanks to the March of Dimes and Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.

KSHB talked to one family about what the special holiday celebration means to them.