Saint Luke's Newsroom
Jan. 20, 2022

Kansas City Star: Nurse talks about treating patients with ECMO in Saint Luke's COVID ICU
Allyse Dowell, a registered nurse at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, briefly explains Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Jan. 20, 2022

Health News You Can Use: Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment
This week we are talking about the importance of cervical cancer screenings, HPV vaccines, and treatment options for those diagnosed at various stages.
Jan. 20, 2022

Kansas City Star: ‘Utterly tragic’: The toll of COVID, through the eyes of a Saint Luke's ICU doctor
COVID-19 cases are the highest Saint Luke's Health System has seen during the pandemic. The Kansas City Star takes a look inside one of the ICU units where COVID patients are being treated.
Jan. 19, 2022

CBS News Takes Viewers Inside a Saint Luke's ICU as Omicron Takes a Devastating Toll on Kansas City
CBS News went inside Saint Luke's ICU units where COVID patients are being treated and spoke to experts about what clinical care teams are seeing in the Kansas City area.
Jan. 18, 2022

KMBC: Local hospitals in high demand of monoclonal antibodies to fight against omicron variant

KMBC talked to Dr. Sarah Boyd about what Saint Luke's Health System is doing.
Jan. 18, 2022

Kansas City Business Journal: Saint Luke’s Health System names exec from another KC system to lead Crittenton
Marshaun Butler is the new administrator for Crittenton.
Jan. 17, 2022

FOX4: Organ transplants up partially due to COVID-19, wife says husband was proud donor
A Kansas man died from COVID-19 but donated his kidneys saving two lives in the process.
Jan. 14, 2022

Kansas City Star: When should you take a COVID test to get the most reliable results? We asked a doctor
The Kansas City Star talked to Ginny Boos, PhD, to understand how to best time a COVID test.
Jan. 13, 2022

KSHB: Kansas City-area urgent care clinics dealing with influx of patients amid COVID-19 surge
KSHB talked to Dr. Marc Larsen about how people can help hospitals by knowing when it's appropriate to seek care at an emergency room versus an urgent care or other option.