The new executive has nearly two decades of experience leading mergers and investment strategies in the health care industry.

Starting next season, The University of Kansas Health System will provide medical care for the professional women's soccer team. Saint Luke's Health System had been the team's provider since 2021.

Tristan Mace's experience receiving an emergency heart transplant altered his life permanently and put him on a path to founding a tech-driven nonprofit with his wife, Jordan.

The money will help the region build a "cluster" of digital health companies, which will attract more investment and more wealth to Kansas City, UMKC's Maria Meyers says.

The money will help the region build a "cluster" of digital health companies, which will attract more investment and more wealth to Kansas City, UMKC's Maria Meyers says.

Liberty Hospital combining with the University of Kansas Health System will be a natural extension of the work it is already doing in Missouri, Bob Page, CEO and President of the KU Health System, said.