Patient Stories
Belton Regional Medical Center
Recently, my husband was admitted to Belton Regional Medical Center for complications due to congestive heart failure. From the time he was admitted to the emergency room until he was discharged, he received excellent care from Dr. David Williams, nurses and all of the staff.
Jeanne Hopkins has relied on Belton Regional Medical Center and her primary care physician, Gary Gustafson, DO, for a quarter of a century. Jeanne has her yearly mammograms and regular bone density tests conducted at the facility’s state-of-the-art imaging department and her husband, Richard, also uses Dr. Gustafson and the hospital for various medical needs.
Jonathan Huntington is used to taking advice from his mother, Kathy Huntington, a Belton Regional Medical Center employee. When Jonathan suffered a serious broken leg last Fourth of July, he was all ears when she recommended he seek medical treatment at Research Belton for an injured leg.
Centerpoint Medical Center
For nearly seven years, Joe Giangrosso was too tired to do much of anything despite spending 17 hours a day in bed. He was no longer able to work on a regular basis or enjoy the things he used to love. He was simply too tired. What he found out was astonishing.
Erin Clear, long QT syndrome
Following batteries of tests doctors diagnosed Erin with long QT syndrome, a rare congenital heart condition that involves an electrical disturbance of the heart’s rhythm. Erin received a combination pacemaker/defibrillator implant and was monitored in Centerpoint’s intensive care unit.
Tom Loveless is a self-professed safety nut and always dons a helmet when skateboarding, and insists his children follow suit. But Tom admits he made a poor decision on Sunday, June 28, 2009. It was a crystal-clear day and the accomplished skateboarder wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather with a quick run at Lea McKeighan Park in Lee’s Summit. “I didn’t wear a helmet,” he says. “I crashed onto the concrete from 10 feet, the park’s highest point.”
Lafayette Regional Health Center
The eyes have it for Mike Kramer. The 68-year-old private pilot who lives in Lexington was having some difficulty landing his plane last summer. When Mike visited his ophthalmologist, Michael E. Somers, MD, for an exam at his Lexington clinic one Thursday, he was told cataracts were hindering his eyesight.
There are three important motivators in David Rich’s life: his love of family, particularly his young grandsons; his passion for cycling; and his dedication to his 35-year-old dental practice in Lexington. When Dr. Rich needed to undergo a three-pronged surgery in April 2009 he was naturally concerned about recovery time and how quickly he could resume his active professional and personal pursuits.
Jean Beyer experienced symptoms last summer that are typical signs to get to an emergency department, stat. The 78-year-old Lexington resident had indications such as severe pain and a drawing down sensation in his neck that prompted a trip to Lafayette Regional Health Center one evening.
Lee's Summit Medical Center
Last December, right before Christmas, Donna Arbuckle experienced firsthand the patient-first care that is Lee's Summit Medical Center's trademark.
Lawrence Bolton learned he had Stage IV non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in February 2010 after a visit to the doctor for stomach pains.
Menorah Medical Center
Marilyn Coleman - the 62-year-old is now cancer-free and thinks her victory over the disease is largely due to the CyberKnife® treatments she had at Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah Medical Center.
Local philanthropist and cancer survivor, Marlene Krakow, shares her story of healing, courtesy of 435SouthMag.com.
Jennifer Fastner - underwent brain surgery for epileptic seizures she had experienced since she was seven days old. Treated unsuccessfully throughout her life with every medication available for epilepsy, Jennifer was growing weary of the 30- to 40-second seizures, which began to increase in frequency last summer—Jennifer was having two to four weekly. It was apparent the seizures were becoming resistant to medication.
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
At 24 weeks in her pregnancy, Julie Clifton delivered Murphy Willingham, Jr. by caesarean section at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. He was immediately put into the care of the hospital’s Level IIIb NICU.
Vince Boggia has a family history of heart disease. His father succumbed to a heart attack at 57 years old, Vince’s exact age when he visited Gregory Chambon, MD, his physician at College Park Family Care Center in Overland Park in February 2009. “It was my annual physical,” says Vince. “I’m a stickler for preventative medicine.”
Laura Kellogg had learned to live with migraine headaches. For more than 20 years – since the age of seven – they struck like clockwork once, sometimes, twice a month. And when they did, Laura retreated to her dark and quiet bedroom to lie down and simply wait out the excruciating head pain and its accompanying nausea and vomiting.
Research Medical Center
Len Lutz
“I was given excellent care from the time I entered the hospital until my discharge the next Thursday,” says Len, who suffered a stroke. “All of the doctors, nurses and Research Medical Center employees treated me and my wife with the utmost respect.”
Carolyn Clemons still remembers the day she injured her left knee about 15 years ago. “I was playing in a parent-child soccer game and trying to avoid falling on a child. Instead, I twisted my knee and ended up injuring myself,” she says.
As a seasoned commercial photographer, Phil Licata works with one of Kansas City’s oldest and largest hospitals, Research Medical Center. But when Phil went to his doctor in January 2010 with a compromised immune system, he suddenly became a patient on the other side of the lens.
