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Volume 35 • Issue 12•March 19 - March 25, 2015 • (816) 221- 4747•1701 S. 55th Street Kansas City, KS. 66106

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os niños del área de Kansas City ya no tienen que viajar cientos de kilómetros para una cirugía de trasplante de corazón. En noviembre de 2014, el hospital de Children’s Mercy fue certificado como un centro de trasplante cardíaco pediátrico. El 13 de febrero, los cirujanos de Children’s Mercy realizaron la primera cirugía de trasplante de corazón a la niña de 15 años de edad, Hannah Mountz. “Hemos tenido que enviar a las familias que viven a 15 minutos del Children’s Mercy a St. Louis o Denver”, informó el Dr. James D. St. Louis, Director Quirúrgico de trasplante cardíaco del hospital. “Ahora, C h i l d r e n ’s M e r c y tiene un programa de cardiología pediátrica de servicio completo”. 2A>

KC girl receives historic transplant By Edie R. Lambert

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ansas City area children no longer have to travel hundreds of miles for heart transplant surgery. In November 2014, Children’s Mercy Hospital was certified as a pediatric cardiac transplantation center. On Feb. 13, Children’s Mercy surgeons performed the first heart transplant surgery on 15-year-old Hannah Mountz. “We’ve had to send families who live within 15 minutes of Children’s Mercy to St. Louis or Denver,” said Dr. James D. St. Louis, the hospital’s surgical director of cardiac transplantation. “Now, Children’s Mercy has a full-service pediatric cardiac program.” Vital to that is being able to offer ventricular assist devices to support the patient waiting for a transplant, St. Louis said. The program is the product of years of planning and preparation. The hospital began the all-out pursuit to become a heart transplantation center in 2011. This year, Children’s Mercy will perform five to six heart transplants, said St. Louis, who operated on Mountz. The Kansas City teen-ager had been on the transplant list for five weeks. At age 12, she’d been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, “a disease in which the heart muscle becomes weak and enlarged, making it difficult to 2A>

Caption: Aliessa Barnes, MD, Brian Birnbaum, MD, Hannah Mountz, and Sarah Bowmaker, RN

Romina Loreley Barral Lucia Jones Herrera “La enfermería tiene muchas posibilidades”

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Lucia Jones

ucía Jones trabaja con “una gran cantidad de personas muy inteligentes y apasionadas” para mejorar la salud de la comunidad; ella atiende a la gente necesitada de atención médica o información relacionada con la asistencia sanitaria; y está loca por la ciencias. La enfermería es su profesión. “Me enamoré de ella”, refirió. “La enfermería tiene tantas posibilidades”. Durante una década, el hospital de la Universidad de Kansas 3A>

“Nursing has so many possibilities” By Edie R. Lambert

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ucia Jones works with “a lot of very smart and passionate individuals” to improve the health of the community; she serves people in need of health care or healthcare-related information; and she’s mad about science. Nursing is her profession. “I fell in love with it,” Jones said. “Nursing has so many possibilities.” For a decade, the University of Kansas Hospital was her nursing 3A>

Siempre quiso ser doctora

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uando tenía 12 años, el abuelo de Romina Barral, Raúl le dio un regalo glorioso. Validó sus aspiraciones médicas. Un día, en el trayecto a la escuela, ella le preguntó qué debería ser. Cualquier cosa que te haga feliz, le contestó. Ella quería ser una doctora, reveló Romina. ¿Estaría bien eso? Por supuesto, le respondió. Ésa había siempre su ambición, pero Raúl fue la primera persona a la que ella le dijo. “Fue una parte tan grande de mí”, dijo. “Yo sabía que no había nada 3A> más que me

She always wanted to be a doctor By Edie R. Lambert

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hen she was about 12, Romina Barral’s grandfather, Raul gave her a glorious gift. He validated her medical aspirations. On a drive to school one day, she asked Raul what she should be. Whatever makes you happy, he’d replied. She wanted to be a doctor, Barral disclosed. Would that would be OK? Of course, he’d replied. That had always been her ambition, but Raul was the first person she told. “It was so much a part of me,” she said. “I knew there was nothing else I’d love more than being a doctor.” Barral is board-certified in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of 3A>

Romina Barral

i usted acaba de obtener seguro médico a través de la Ley de Asistencia Asequible, es probable que se haya beneficiado parcialmente de un subsidio del gobierno, dado que la parte de “Asequible” de la ley significa que el gobierno federal recoge parte de la cuenta por su seguro. Pero si se traga la lógica de los demandantes en King vs. Burwell, acaba de ayudar al gobierno a cometer un delito. La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. está escuchando argumentos que prohibirían desembolsar subsidios en 36 estados que no han establecido sus propios intercambios de seguro de salud, incluyendo Missouri y Kansas. De los 13.4 millones beneficiarios estimados de Obamacare que perderían sus subsidios de seguro si la Corte Suprema confirma el desafío, 370,765 viven en Missouri y 127,804 en Kansas. El impacto potencialmente amplio y potente del caso contrasta con el detalle relativamente pequeño sobre el que depende de la demanda. 5A> He aquí como funciona: el código del

ACA challengers claim subsidies illegal in federallyoperated exchanges By Jesus Lopez-Gomez

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f you just got healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, you likely benefited partly from a government subsidy, given the “Affordable” part of the law means the federal government picks up part of the tab for your insurance. But if you buy the logic of the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, you’ve just helped the government commit a crime. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments that would outlaw disbursing subsidies in 36 states that haven’t established their own health insurance exchanges, including Missouri and Kansas. Of the estimated 13.4 million Obamacare beneficiaries who would lose their insurance subsidies if the 5A>

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