Treasures - Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

Dan Dechant, Senior Vice President and Complex Manager at Morgan Stanley, presented three carts full of art supplies to Megan
Delanty, Child Life Specialist at Children’s Mercy. The employees at Morgan Stanley held an art supplies drive in November to benefit
the patients at the hospital. (photo in e-mail from Kati)
A local builder has special place in his heart for Children's Mercy. B&F Homes
partnered with KMBC-TV and TLC Concepts to coordinate the building and
marketing of a 9,000 square foot Mission Hills home. Part owner Brad Bond was delighted
to offer Children’s Mercy a chance to collect donations during an open house weekend. His
now-teenage daughter was a cancer patient when she was 6 years old. Volunteers ended
up collecting more than $7,000 for the hospital’s oncology program.
A multimedia music and dance work loosely based on a section of Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric" debuted on
September 5, with 50 percent of all the proceeds donated to Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics Cancer Program in memory of
Kathryn Ann McCallum Lackey, the mother of composer William J. Lackey.
The 14th Annual Bill Mounkes Golf Tournament was held on August 1, with
all the charitable funds going towards the purchase of a Fun Center gaming cart. The
tournament raised $8100 in memory of Bill Mounkes, who was active in the Optimist Club
and read to the patients at Children’s Mercy.
A check for $11,660.00 was sent to Children’s Mercy on behalf of those who played and
supported the Mechanical Contractors Association of Kansas City’s golf
outing. Members of the Association gathered on September 29 and played a foursome
"Purple Ball Scramble".
The Women’s Foundation of Greater Kansas City has awarded the Children’s Mercy Family Friends Program with a
$15,000 grant. The grant will be used to develop the new Diamond in the Rough program, which will give girls being raised by their
grandmothers the tools they need to grow up with high self esteem, healthy habits and the tools they need to be successful.
Northland Health Care Access was formed in 1991 to coordinate advocacy and financial support to address the limited
resources available for basic primary health for uninsured families living in Clay and Platte Counties. In 2005, Children’s Mercy
Hospital and Northland Health Care Access entered into a partnership to provide services through Children’s Mercy Northland Urgent
Care Center. NHCA contributes $15,000 annually to cover urgent care services for the uninsured of the Northland.
The Wyandotte Health Foundation made a gift of $125,000 to Children’s Mercy West - The Cordell Meeks Jr. Clinic, bringing
its total donations to this primary care clinic in Kansas City, Kan. to more than $1 million since 2000. The foundation was formed in
1997 from proceeds of the sale of Bethany Medical Center to Columbia HCA.
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