Facilities

University of Kansas Hospital
The University of Kansas Hospital is a 555-bed hospital that is the major teaching hospital for the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and for the Department of Neurology. It is the secondary and tertiary referral center for the state of Kansas and a level one trauma center. The catchment area for referrals includes the entire state of Kansas, western Missouri, eastern Nebraska, eastern Oklahoma, and northern Arkansas. A sixth floor was recently added to the hospital, and the neurology ward and neurological intensive care unit (NICU) are being completed and will open in Fall 2008. These adjacent units will provide 15 NICU beds, 10 intermediate care and telemetry beds, and 28 regular hospital beds. In addition, we have four video-EEG machines which are used for prolonged monitoring. The nurses on these wards are trained in the care of patients with neurological disorders and are part of the Stroke Rapid Response assessment team. The epilepsy faculty and epilepsy clinic are housed in these buildings.

The main location for the Department of Neurology is the Alf and Theo Landon Center on Health in Aging building, one block north of the main hospital campus. Most of our faculty are housed in this building. We average 1175 outpatient visits each month utilizing 24 clinic rooms, two EMG machines, two combined EMG/EEG/evoked potential laboratories, a procedure room for muscle biopsies, and an infusion center for chemotherapy and plasmapharesis. A three-bed unit for sleep studies is housed nearby.

Adjacent to the main hospital is the six-story Center for Advanced Heart Care. This facility houses separate operating rooms and coronary angiography and physiology laboratories. In 2007, the University of Kansas Hospital had 20,874 admissions, 41,194 emergency department visits, and 270,537 outpatient visits.

The School of Medicine main classrooms are on the campus along with the Schools of Allied Health. These include the Schools of Nursing, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, and the Master’s programs in Pubic Health and in Clinical Science.

 

Kansas City VAMC
The Kansas City Veterans Administration Medical Center is a 125-bed facility acute care hospital for veterans. Neurology ward beds are available as needed in the progressive care unit (PCU, 3-North), on medical floors 8-West and 8-East, and on surgical floor 3-West. Aside from the PCU, telemetry monitoring is done on 8-West and 8-East. Intensive care for neurology patients is available in the medical intensive care unit (MICU), coronary care unit (CCU), and surgical intensive care unit (SICU) as needed under the primary supervision of pulmonary/critical care or cardiology staff physicians. Outpatient evaluations are conducted in the Silver Clinic, which provides eight well-equipped rooms. There are three rooms for EMG/NCV studies and two rooms for EEG and evoked potential studies. Clinics are held five, half days each week.

 

Leavenworth VAMC
Located in nearby historic Leavenworth, the Leavenworth Veterans Administration Medical Center is a 75-bed acute care facility with a large domicile area for veteran’s with chronic illness. The neurology service is primarily inpatient consults, clinic, and some clinical neurophysiology.

 

Topeka VAMC
Located in nearby Topeka, Kansas, the Topeka Veterans Administration Medical Center is a 100+ bed acute and chronic care hospital for veterans. Half of the PGY1 of training is spent at this facility as part of our integrated categorical internship. Here, the residents function as a part of a team under the leadership of a board-certified, faculty neurologist, providing a continuum of care from the clinic, ED, ward and intensive care units.

 

Truman Medical Center
The main teaching hospital for the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s School of Medicine, Truman Medical Center (TMC) is a 247-bed acute care hospital for adults and a level one trauma center. Neurology does not have a primary inpatient service although it does perform inpatient and ER consultations regularly. There are six fully equipped outpatient clinic rooms available for neurology use located on the fifth floor of the TMC clinic building which is connected to the main hospital.

 

Children’s Mercy Hospital
Children’s Mercy Hospital is a 296-bed children’s hospital located five miles away from our main campus, in Kansas City, Missouri. This hospital serves as the secondary and tertiary referral center for pediatric patients for Kansas, western Missouri, and eastern Nebraska. The pediatric neurology team consists of one of seven faculty pediatric neurologists, a pediatric neurology fellow, an adult neurology resident, a pediatric resident, and a variable number of medical students. Inpatients are primarily managed by the pediatric ward services, with the neurology team providing consults, ED evaluation, and an active outpatient service.