Local news anchor Christel Bell returned to FOX4 News Kansas City this month after being hospitalized at Saint Luke's with an infected cyst. Christel shared an update on her health and recovery and spoke with Dr. Valerie Wood, an ENT specialist, about her condition: bit.ly/49Ne6Ne

Saint Luke’s is thrilled to announce that we’ve reached a definitive agreement with BJC HealthCare to combine as an integrated, academic and patient-centric Missouri-based health system. Read more about this important next step: bit.ly/3T8QkFs

The integration of Saint Luke’s into BJC Health System is official! Together, we will continue to advance care, accelerate discovery, and increase community impact across Missouri, southern Illinois and eastern Kansas. Learn more here: bit.ly/3NROEgf

Last month we launched our pickleball clinic & speaker series at Chicken N Pickle® with KC Pro Volleyball as our first guest speakers. Thank you to Saint Luke's for being the presenting sponsor of the series & bringing this exciting new program to the Kansas City community! 💙

Standing room only for Mikhail Kosiborod presenting STEP HFpEF diabetes study at #ACC2024 Improved KCCQ, 6MWD, and weight loss with semaglutide versus placebo Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

Breaking🔥 STEP-HFpEF-DM 🔥 Semaglutide (vs placebo) leads to more weight loss, improved health status (KCCQ-CSS), increased walking distance, improved glycemic control, reduced inflammation (CRP), reduced natriuretic peptides, reduced HF hospitalizations, with favorable safety

Andrew J Sauer MD presents to a crowd on on quadruple medial therapy uptake across regions with IMPLEMENT-HF ❤️🔥 American College of Cardiology #ACC24 AHAMeetings John Spertus Mikhail Kosiborod Mirza Khan Evan O'Keefe Charles F. Sherrod IV, MD MSc Dan Nguyen Brett Sperry, MD Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Saint Luke's

Dr. Andrew J Sauer MD from Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute presented a hopeful message today at #ACC24, sharing a report from American Heart Association’s IMPLEMENT-HF initiative. Learn more here: heart.org/en/professiona…

Celebrate Mother’s Day early with a FREE pipe organ concert on Saturday, May 11! Presented by Saint Luke's, this free 75-minute concert features music from across the globe performed by Grammy-nominated artist Jan Kraybill. Tickets: tickets.kauffmancenter.org/22636

Proof I made it to European Society of Cardiology Let’s go! Check out JACC Journals publications our team is releasing soon during London sessions. jacc.org/events/confere… Mikhail Kosiborod John Spertus Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Saint Luke's

Semaglutide and obesity related HFpEF Patients with atrial fibrillation and obesity HFpEF are generally more burdened/congested at baseline and also may benefit more from GLP1 in health status and walking distance. Mikhail Kosiborod Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

Inflammation reduction by semaglutide as measured by CRP tracks with magnitude of NTproBNP reduction.

Semaglutide and obesity HFpEF Echo markers Improved LA volume reduction and markers of diastolic function with GLP1 compared to placebo. Muthu Vaduganathan BiykemBozkurt Mikhail Kosiborod

CV outcomes from FLOW trial. Semaglutide vs placebo focused on patients with HF within larger population of T2DM and CKD.

Pooled analysis of patients with HFpEF in STEP-HFpEF, SELECT, and FLOW Mikhail Kosiborod Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Saint Luke's Muthu Vaduganathan

Thank you to all who joined us for the kickoff night of GloWild: Legends & Lore presented by Saint Luke's! We can’t wait to share this spectacular lantern festival with the rest of you this fall and winter. Get tickets and view the calendar at bit.ly/3hY6tgA. 📸 Carla

If you watched the U.S. Open, you may have noticed a screen graphic calling it "The World's Healthiest Sport." TIME fact-checked the claim with Dr. Jame's O'Keefe, director of preventive cardiology at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute: heyor.ca/JnAVLj

GloWild: Legends & Lore presented by Saint Luke's will be closed tonight, Sept. 13, due to another Zoo event, but it will return Saturday evening! Learn more about GloWild at bit.ly/3hY6tgA. 📸 Carla F.

Just as a reminder, GloWild: Legends & Lore presented by Saint Luke's is closed every Monday and Tuesday except during Thanksgiving week. We will be back for more family fun on Wednesday! bit.ly/3hY6tgA.

Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod, cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, presented new data at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in London. The pooled analysis of four trials tested semaglutide in over 3,700 patients with HFpEF. Read more: heyor.ca/eoqL0L