Story by Ann E. Butenas Inside the Overland Park hospital where teamwork, technology and heart help patients reclaim their lives after serious injury or illness. When patients arrive at MidAmerica Rehabilitation Hospital in Overland Park, they are often facing the hardest chapter of their lives. Strokes, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, amputations, or Parkinson’s disease- all these conditions tend to ...

Article by Ann E. Butenas Chase Hobbs, DO – A Kansas City joint replacement surgeon explains why more patients are trading a hospital bed for their own home after surgery. For decades, joint replacement surgery meant checking into the hospital for at least one night, sometimes more. Today, more patients are walking out the same afternoon. Chase Hobbs, DO, a ...

Story by Jeanie Edgmon Getting Answers Shouldn’t Be So Complicated  For patients and providers, lab testing can turn into a maze of appointments, insurance uncertainty, and surprise costs. A Kansas City-area business owner believes getting answers should be simpler. Most people have questions about their health – fatigue they can’t explain, numbers they want to track (like cholesterol), or tests ...

Story by Ann E Butenas Celebrating 25 Years, AesthetiCare Medspa + Wellness remains Kansas City’s go-to for innovation, education, and results. When AesthetiCare Medspa + Wellness opened its doors in 2001, the medspa industry looked nothing like it does today. Twenty-five years, four Kansas City-area locations, and thousands of client relationships later, the practice has become one of the largest ...

Story by Ann E. Butenas C. Lan Fotopoulos, MD explains how to distinguish ordinary back pain from something that needs real medical treatment. Almost everyone deals with some kind of back pain at some point in their lives. That’s practically a given. Most of the time, it comes and goes: a tweak from lifting something heavy, a stiff morning after ...

Article by Corinn Ayers Most people think of hospice care in terms of nurses and medication. At Ascend Hospice & Palliative Care, Director of Support Services Kirstin Georgeson is showing patients and families that those typical forms of pain management are only part of the picture. Georgeson joined Ascend in 2021 as the organization’s first full-time music therapist. She earned ...

Story by Ann Butenas The orthopedics team at Providence Medical Center takes a patient-first approach to getting people moving again. When something hurts, a knee that won’t cooperate, a shoulder that aches through the night, a hip that has quietly stolen the life you used to live, you want a team that listens before it operates. At Providence Medical Center, ...

Article by Ann Butenas At MidAmerica Rehabilitation Hospital, the depth of clinical education behind every specialist is the foundation of every recovery. When it comes to rehabilitation, the difference between good care and exceptional care often comes down to what happens before a patient ever walks through the door. At MidAmerica Rehabilitation Hospital, the clinicians who guide patients through some ...

Story by Ann Butenas The Northland’s only female fellowship-trained foot and ankle surgeon carved out a career path that was anything but textbook, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Dr. Angela Walker didn’t necessarily grow up dreaming of operating rooms, but she did grow up dreaming of being a doctor. She grew up forcing her cousin Hallee, a ...

Story by Ann Butenas There are doctors who stop growing once they finish their training. Then there is C. Lan Fotopoulos, M.D. Board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain management, sports medicine, and undersea and hyperbaric medicine, he has built his career at on a simple idea: there is almost always a better answer, and it is worth looking for. ...