🏛️ The Entities: A Gallery of Complicity

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 Not all hospitals wear masks. Some just change names.
Below are the key institutions that shaped, distorted, or outright buried Nicole’s medical reality. 

“We Catch What Other Hospitals Miss.”
Except they didn’t — or maybe didn’t want to. While branding themselves as elite, KU’s providers leaned heavily on recycled psychiatric narratives. Their system absorbed falsehoods from outside institutions, amplified them, and helped erase physical evidence of harm. KU didn’t just inherit the deception. They enshrined it.

See The University of Kansas Health Systems Full Profile.

“One hospital, many names. Same failures.”
The epicenter. Where it all began. From the bungled ERCP to record manipulation, NKCH and its alter ego Meritas repeatedly rerouted truth in favor of institutional preservation. No matter how far Nicole tried to escape their grasp, she found herself back in their web—under a new name, but always the same result.

See North Kansas City Hospital's Full Profile.

“A new setting. Same script.”
Nicole left Kansas City hoping for clarity — instead, she got another helping of denial. Freeman doctors failed to act on a revealing echocardiogram, despite it showing right-sided heart failure and mitral valve damage. All this while their new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Amanda Harrell, settled into her role… promoted the day before that test.

See Freeman Health Systems Full Profile.

“We’re Serious About Care.”
So serious, they forgot to calculate the most important lab. An HCA endocrinologist ordered the aldosterone and renin test — but failed to calculate the ARR (aldosterone/renin ratio), which would have confirmed Nicole’s adrenal disorder years earlier. Ironically, it was also an HCA physician who later performed the only ERCP that actually helped her — the vomiting of bile finally stopped. One network, two extremes.

See HCAA Midwest Health's Full Profile.