truman medical centers - Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute

TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTERS
DID YOU KNOW?
•Truman Medical Centers, with the UMKC
School of Medicine, has implemented two
innovative approaches to the chronic care
model called Guided Chronic Care and
Passport to Wellness.
•The project addresses social barriers
that impede low income, ethnically
diverse, largely uninsured, patient
populations and their ability to fully
access the medical care offered.
•193 patients have been enrolled in the programs and evidence shows
that the impact of chronic disease on their lives is relatively high, prior to
intervention their quality of life is relatively low and that medication
management (patients getting and taking the right medication at the right
time) may be one of the key components for success.
DID YOU KNOW?
Truman Medical Centers
President/CEO John W. Bluford serves
as the 2011 Chair of the American
Hospital Association Board of
Trustees
DID YOU KNOW?
The Vision Research Center (a partnership
with Truman Medical Centers and UMKC) is
developing a medical device for macular
degeneration patients that would allow the
physician and patient to continuously monitor
disease progress and therapy success with a
simple wireless computer interface.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Truman Medical Center Trauma
Services Department is currently
conducting a study investigating the
mechanisms of cell injury following
hemorrhagic shock and specifically
how the development of shock leads to
the depletion of cellular energy stores
and cell death.
DID YOU KNOW?
Truman Medical Centers is the only
hospital in the Kansas City metro
area associated with Aim 4 Peace,
an evidence-based health approach
to reversing the epidemic of
violence in Kansas City.
DID YOU KNOW?
• In an effort to increase access to
quality fresh fruits and vegetables for
patients, visitors and staff, Truman
Medical Centers holds a fresh produce
market each week, April through
September.
• In 2010, the market sold more than
96,000 pounds of produce to nearly
11,000 customers.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Truman Medical Centers
partnered with the Kansas City
Public Library to open the Health
and Wellness Center at the Lucile
Bluford Branch Library.
• The Health and Wellness Center
helps provide the Kansas City
community the resources for
gaining control and better
management of their own wellThe Health and Wellness Center inside
being through access to quality
the Lucile Bluford Branch of the Kansas
health information and personnel. City Public Library
DID YOU KNOW?
• Truman Medical Centers
provides more uncompensated
care than any other hospital in the
Kansas City Metro Area, more than
$2 million per week.
• $108 Million in Fiscal Year 2010
DID YOU KNOW?
The TMC Trauma Services
Department is involved with a
pharmaceutical trial looking at
the efficacy and safety of
octaplex and fresh frozen
plasma in patients under vitamin
K antagonist therapy with the
need for urgent surgery or
invasive procedures.