By Lisa B. Fletcher, M.D. with Blue Springs Pediatrics As an expectant parent, we envision a beautiful, chubby, happy bundle of love that nurses every 3-4 hours and sleeps and smiles in between. And then they start puking on you!!! What’s this you ask? It's making you...
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Co-Parenting. It’s not a competition. It’s a collaboration of parents doing what is best for the kids.
By Abbie Engelhardt, R.N. for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group Co-parenting can be hard. Very hard. When two people decide to have children together, they don’t plan on splitting up. But as we all know, it happens… a lot. When families separate, it is rough. Tempers...
What you need to know about RSV – Respiratory Syncytial Virus
By Amanda Martin, M.D. What is RSV? Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common lower respiratory infection. In infants and toddlers, it causes bronchiolitis, which is swelling and mucous production of the small airways in the lungs, or pneumonia. In infants and...
Screen Time vs. Family Time. It’s a problem.
By Dena Pepple, R.N. for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group. I bought my first smart phone 5 years ago. My first grand-baby was coming, and I wanted to be ready for pictures and FaceTime video that my flip phone did not offer. Shortly after, a niece introduced me to Candy...
What is a Medical Home and how does it relate to my child’s care?
By Abbie Engelhardt, R.N. for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group Some of you are probably thinking, what in the world is a Medical Home? Well, let me explain. A Medical Home is all about you and your child. It's a team approach, combined with information technology, to...
All Staff Training Day… And Food Trucks!
By Jody C. Brown, Director for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group. One of my favorite days of the year here at Lee’s Summit Physicians Group is All Staff Training Day. We close all our offices for the afternoon, order up food trucks and our entire staff converges on “the...
Happy Halloween from LSPG! Check out these spooky pics.
From all of us at Lee's Summit Physicians Group, we hope you have a safe and fun Halloween. Organizations all over the city are having "safe" trick-or-treating opportunities in their buildings and parking lots. It's always a good idea to go early and with friends. And...
Employee Spotlight: Angela Covington, Supervisor
By Rhonda Pfaffly, Referral Coordinator for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group. Angela came to work for LSPG in April, 2000 at the ripe old age of 19 and has been a permanent fixture of LSPG ever since. Angela was working at TMC when she was introduced to the Steve...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Jody shares her story.
By Jody C. Brown, Director for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group. Cancer. We hear that word all the time. I’m pretty confident that the majority of people reading this blog have either themselves been affected by cancer or know someone who has been affected by it. My...
Do you live in a Haunted House? That might not be candy…
By Dena Pepple, R.N. for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group. We're not far from Halloween... Are there monsters under your bed or ghosts in your closets? Do you hear creaks and noises in the night? Are you afraid to go to the basement alone? Maybe, you live in a haunted...
Employee Spotlight: Wendy Johnson – Director of Nursing
By Matthew Hornung, Director of Information Technology for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group. We are happy to announce our new Director of Pediatric Nursing for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group, Wendy Johnson. Wendy has been with us for over 20 years. She brings a wealth of...
Jody’s Trip to Africa – “Do I have to drink goat blood?!??!”
By Jody C. Brown, Director for Lee’s Summit Physicians Group. My husband took his first trip to South Africa in 1989. That trip would spark a life-long love affair with the country, and other African countries would eventually be added to that list. We took our boys...