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Jun. 19, 2015

Gladstone Fire and EMS receive Spot-A-Stroke Award for recognizing Northland man's stroke symptoms

By all accounts, Kurt Hinrichs of Gladstone was a healthy man in his early 50s.

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Jun. 5, 2015

FOX4: Saint Luke's celebrates 30 years of heart transplants

30 years and nearly 700 heart transplants, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute celebrates this major milestone. 
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May. 13, 2015

Sallie Wickens is Back in the Saddle Thanks to Saint Luke’s

As Sallie Wickens boarded the LifeFlight helicopter in Climax Springs, Missouri, in June 2012, she had no idea it would be the last leg of a journey that started when she was 5 years old.
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May. 8, 2015

FOX4: Saint Luke's Crittenton Children's Center Nationally Recognized for Program to Help Heal Emotional Trauma in Children

FOX4's Meryl Lin McKean reports on how a program designed in Kansas City to help heal young children who have experienced trauma is earning national recognition.
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May. 4, 2015

New Mom Comes Home to Saint Luke’s After Labor Scare at Another Hospital

Keely Bechtel hoped history would repeat itself. She had her first baby at Saint Luke’s South Hospital and planned to do the same with her second. But her obstetrician moved to another area hospital.
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Apr. 29, 2015

Precision Medicine Improves Use of Bleeding Avoidance Strategies and Reduces Bleeding in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Researchers at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute asked the question whether prospectively determining and informing physicians of an individual patient’s bleeding risk would increase the proper application of bleeding avoidance strategies and result in reduced odds of bleeding.
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Apr. 28, 2015

KCTV5 NEWS: Cranking Up the Volume...Teens at Increased Risk for Hearing Loss

KCTV5 interviewed Dr. Robert Cullen at Saint Luke's Hospital Midwest Ear Institute about the increased risk of hearing loss teens are facing and what parents can do about it. 
Apr. 27, 2015

Wright Memorial Hospital offers Safe Sitter® classes

Wright Memorial Hospital is offering a one-day  Safe Sitter® class, designed to give 11 to 13-year-olds the necessary and life-saving skills needed to care for younger children.
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Apr. 16, 2015

Fast Care Gets Golfer Back on Course

Every second of a stroke kills 32,000 brain cells. Pete Woods knew that as he dropped to the ground while playing golf on the course alone.