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5830 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, Missouri, United States Coordinates 39°14′56″N 94°38′54″W / 39.24898°N 94.64843°W / 39.24898; -94
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The Northland is an area on the northside of the Kansas City metropolitan area comprising Platte County and Clay County. [1] North of the Missouri River, the Northland includes the northern part of Kansas City, Missouri, the cities of North Kansas City, Liberty, Parkville, Riverside, Platte City, and Gladstone, and the towns of Smithville, Weatherby Lake, and Pleasant Valley. [2]
Arch E. Spelman founded Smithville's first hospital in 1938 in the old downtown, as an 11-bed space. By 1962, the hospital had relocated to its current site on U.S. 169 and became known as Spelman Memorial Hospital. By 1993, it became known as St. Luke's Northland Hospital.
The origins of Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City began in 1882, when Episcopal priest Henry David Jardine, businessperson F. T. Hadlond, and other Kansas Citians created the Church Charity Association of Kansas City and an Articles of Agreement for benevolent, scientific, educational, and charitable purposes.
The origins of University Health Truman Medical Center began in 1870 with the construction of City Hospital at 22nd Street and McCoy Avenue (now Kenwood Avenue) in Kansas City. [4] Voters approved a bond issue in 1903 to fund the construction of a new larger General Hospital because the 175-bed hospital was deemed insufficient for the growing city.
Shepherd Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research, and rehabilitation for people with complex conditions, including spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, multi-trauma, traumatic amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions.
The University of Kansas Health System, commonly known as KU Med and formerly known as The University of Kansas Hospital, [1] [2] is a nonprofit, academic medical center located in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, with branch hospitals and education centers in Topeka, Kansas, Great Bend, Kansas, and Lawrence, Kansas.