Brian Ellison

contributor and host of KCUR's political podcast Statehouse Blend Missouri.

Stories by Brian Ellison

Exterior of Children's Mercy Hospital

Getting Innovators To Come To Work — At A Children’s Hospital

Health care providers who work with kids are natural innovators, says Krista Nelson, Children’s Mercy Hospital’s director of innovation development. Nelson, an expert in innovation — not medicine, was hired by the hospital to run its new Center for Pediatric Innovation. “In the children’s hospital or pediatric environment, we really deal with every size of…

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