🏥 North Kansas City Hospital (NKCH)

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“STAT means whenever you wake up.”

North Kansas City Hospital is ground zero in Nicole’s collapse. From August through December 2019, it delivered a cascade of failures — from negligent procedures to record manipulation. Their staff didn’t miss what mattered. They buried it.

• Meritas = NKCH’s clinical wing. Not a separate entity.
• Nicole sought second opinions — unaware it was the same system in disguise.

Nicole is admitted with liver distress. Instead of removing the offending drug, they starve her for 37 hours (NPO status). Her liver labs worsen.

Dr. Thomas Shireman performs an ERCP despite Nicole lacking a gallbladder. He places a stent — likely incorrectly.

Within hours: Two STAT events occur, consistent with fat emboli lodging in the IVC and damaging the heart. Records were manipulated — falsely splitting the events across September 2 and 3.

Dr. Robert Evangelidis, the attending hospitalist, fails to disclose the pattern — preserving the hospital’s image, not the patient’s health.

• Focal bile duct stricture
• Liver enlargement (19.8 cm)
• New adrenal mass

Three physicians accessed this scan. None disclosed these findings to Nicole.

Nicole falls into a hepatic encephalopathic coma. Upon waking: hemiparesis, confusion, and memory issues. Doctors treat with prednisone — the standard therapy for Autoimmune Hepatitis — but never document the diagnosis.

The next afternoon, post-discharge, Nicole develops a stutter. A neurological symptom likely triggered by steroid exposure interacting with unresolved hepatic encephalopathy. It was never evaluated.

Psychiatrist Dr. James Trahan sees her once, dismisses it all as depression. His note is uploaded to KU's EMR, weaponized later.

Dr. Maturo, a Meritas physician, signs off on the lie on December 25 — like a gift wrapped in denial.

“We Heal With Heart.”
…after we injure it.

“Your Health. Our Mission.”
…unless the truth gets in the way.

“Partners in Health. Champions for You.”
…if silence is your goal.

North Kansas City Hospital wasn’t just where Nicole was treated — it was where she was betrayed.

From Shireman’s ERCP to Evangelidis’s omissions, NKCH set the damage in motion and protected its own. This is not accidental harm. It’s systemic concealment.

They broke her body.
She lived anyway.

Symbol: Staff of Caduceus — for the false image of healing they maintained.
Status: Under Public Review.
Exposure Begins: July 2, 2025, 9:00 AM.