Ingram’s February 2023

Heroes in Healthcare 2023 The 20th Year

2023 At the Forefront of Regional Health

The standard definition of a hero is some one admired for demonstrating courage. But there’s more to the definition: It also applies to someone admired for noble qualities. So it’s no misuse of the term to bestow that title on the 21 individuals you will meet in this installment of Heroes in Healthcare. In this 20th anniversary year, more than 400 health-care professionals have now been recog nized in this annual feature, and in each case, without exception, when we learn about their backgrounds, their passions for doing what they do, their love for providing patient care, we ask ourselves: Where do they come from? How is a metropolitan area of Kansas City’s size able to produce so many dedicated, skilled and compassionate people—enough to easily fill these positions of honor year after year?

The answers to that can be found in the personal accounts you’ll read for each of these people working in the fields of administra tion, professional services, nursing, auxiliary services, lifetime achievement and volunteer roles. Their examples, indeed, mark them as Heroes in Healthcare. So let us introduce you to a broad spectrum of people who are working hard at every level of clinical health care—from the administra tive ranks to the ranks of medical professionals and those who have invested their lifetime con tributions to their organizations and to their patients. These are the people who make health care exceptional in the Kansas City region, and to each of them, a debt of gratitude is owed.

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February 2023