The scholarship will is named the Harkness Scholarship, after Dr. James A. Harkness, a former Chillicothe physician and Chief of Staff at Hedrick Medical Center.
Hamilton has been serving in this role in an interim capacity since August 2023, leading the day-to-day operations of the two North Central Missouri hospitals.
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute was the first in Kansas and Missouri, and one of only 27 US institutions, to participate in PULSED AF clinical trial.
As of January 1, 2024, Wright Memorial Hospital entered into a new contract with the emergency medicine physicians providing care in the hospital’s emergency department.
As of January 1, 2024, Hedrick Medical Center entered into new contract with the emergency medicine physicians providing care in the hospital’s emergency department.
The groundbreaking STEP-HFpEF study, led by Mikhail Kosiborod, MD, vice president of research at Saint Luke's Health System, has been named one of the top advances by the American Heart Association.