Truman Medical Center–Hospital Hill (abbreviated TMC Hospital Hill) is an acute care

Acute care

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 and outpatient hospital

Hospital

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 located in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

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 at 2301 Holmes Street.

Hospital background

TMC Hospital Hill has the busiest adult

Adult

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 emergency room

Emergency department

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 in the Kansas City metropolitan area

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a fifteen-county metropolitan area that is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri and is bisected by the border between the states of Missouri and Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,035,334. The metropolitan area is the...

 with more than 60,000 visits a year. It is located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri across from Children's Mercy Hospital

Children's Mercy Hospital

Children's Mercy Hospital is a comprehensive pediatric hospital located in Kansas City, Missouri that provides medical care to patients from birth to 18 years of age. Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is the only free-standing children's hospital between St. Louis and Denver.-The Berry...

. It is directly connected with UMKC school of medicine and provides training base for its six-year medical program. Students from UMKC school of medicine rotate a total of six months in TMC for their internal medicine rotation, and begins their responsibility in out-patient clinics starting the third year of their training, which is continued to graduation under the supervision of an attending physician. TMC consists of 194 beds, equipped with diverse fields of services (ER, internal medicine, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, ENT, ophthomology, cardiology, infectious disease, radiology, GI, behavioral health/psychiatry, dermatology, pulmonary clinic, primary care clinics, physical therapy, occupational health, obstetrics/gynecology), as well as a 24/7 translator service. It is located right across from Children's Mercy Hospital and is connected via a skybridge, having access for pediatric/adult transfers when necessary.