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Advance Directive Help Your Family Plan for the Future
Secure your healthcare advance directive, which can include healthcare durable power of attorney (DPOA) and healthcare treatment directive or living will. Be sure to talk with your family and friends about your healthcare wishes.
Managing Your Medication
Prescription medication can play an important role in our lives. It can help us overcome a short-term illness or manage a chronic condition. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48.7% of Americans have used at least one prescription drug in the past 30 days.
Prepare for Life’s Uncertainties
Whether we think of ourselves as perfectly healthy or we are living with a serious illness, the most important thing as a patient is to make sure your health team understands your goals for your care.
Vaccine Plan Saves Lives Overseas
Using a COVID-19 vaccination plan developed at NKCH, Julius Saisi helped get 2,000 Kenyans vaccinated, including his mother, Ruth.
COVID-19 Long Haulers Support
For those who are suffering from the long-term effects of COVID-19, NKCH offers a long-haulers program to help manage lingering symptoms and improve your quality of life.
Knock Out Parkinsons
Rock Steady Boxing helps people with Parkinson’s by using boxing techniques but without bodily contact. NKCH is the only Kansas City-area hospital that offers Rock Steady.
Be Cautious About What You Click and Access
Please join us in spreading cybersecurity awareness and encourage everyone to own their role in protecting Internet-connected devices.
Buckle Up This Holiday Weekend
Labor Day is one of the three deadliest holidays for roadway travel. Travelers head to their favorite vacation spots before school starts. Practice seatbelt safety so you arrive alive.
Ticks Avoid Misery in Missouri
As the Midwest grows hotter because of climate change, tick-related diseases are on the rise in Missouri. Prevention is your best defense.
Never Too Old to Be Loved
People who foster senior dogs and cats open their homes and hearts to give these animals a second chance. Fostering a pet also has physical and emotional health benefits.
Glory Days
Dana Hindman and Pam Roberts relive their days on the Winnetonka High School Dance Drill Team after the isolation of COVID-19.
How to Become a Medical Laboratory Scientist
Explore the benefits of our School of Medical Laboratory Science and how an MLS degree can lead to different medical laboratory careers in healthcare.
Harrowing COVID-19 Battle Gives KC Legend New Lease on Life
When Kansas City legend Bob Reeder fell ill with COVID-19, he feared the worst. Watch the video to learn how NKCH staff saved his life.
Back On the Air After Lifesaving Care
As we celebrate Heart Month, we take a look at MIX 93.3 radio personality Rocket’s recovery from life-threatening bicuspid aortic valve disease.
How Blood Donation Saved the Life of a Northland Mom
Blood donation, a resource that enables hospitals to provide lifesaving care, saved the life of a Northland mom after she had a near-fatal pregnancy complication.
Make Halloween Less Scary By Taking These COVID-19 Precautions
To help control the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines to help change high-risk behaviors
Nurse's Quick Action Saves Child
Just minutes after Brenda and Randy posed for this photo, Brenda found herself in a lifesaving situation.
13 Tips for Saving Your Sanity During Quarantine
Life is starting to look a little more recognizable, and that’s something to celebrate. But, don’t expect your fears and concerns to melt away quickly. Finding healthy ways to deal is as important as ever.
Coronavirus Coping as a Caregiver
During this uncertain time, being a caregiver may feel even more challenging, difficult and worrisome. Following a plan. It is vital you take these needed steps for the health and well-being of your loved one and yourself.
4 Ways to Help During the Coronavirus Outbreak
f you’re looking to help during the coronavirus outbreak, look no further than your older neighbors or people with serious chronic medical conditions. These people are at a higher risk from getting sick from the coronavirus. By helping them, you can make
Help for Dry Hands Caused by Coronavirus Handwashing
Whether you’re washing your hands to “Happy Birthday,” “Jolene” or another catchy chorus, you probably have hand hygiene down to a science by now. While clean hands help fight disease, the side effect is rough, dry and cracked skin. Here’s how to find rel
Support Groups for Life
Sometimes, life hands you a health challenge you’re not sure you can handle. There’s comfort in knowing you’re not alone. Support groups bring people with similar experiences together. They offer a safe place to share personal experiences, discuss...
A Heart for the Homeless
Home for some people is a tarp with a few belongings inside. Clinical Educator Mary Davis, RN, will always remember the man with frostbitten toes and the pregnant woman who lived under a bridge in 12-degree weather. It’s hard to know how many people in Kansas City live in boxes, under bridges […]