Biz 417: Bringing Pediatric Teams Together for Better Care
By Max Havey
Debbie Schwartzkopf has been working at Children’s Mercy in some capacity for the last 30 years.
She started as a student nurse, eventually working her way up to more operations-focused roles before taking over as chief administrative officer of Children’s Mercy with Mercy in August 2025.
Because pediatrics was previously embedded in the adult system at Mercy Springfield, one of Schwartzkopf’s key goals is uniting it with the Children’s Mercy pediatric system. “The biggest challenge now is recognizing that pediatrics is what we do,” Schwartzkopf says. “We want to make sure we’re able to bring that to life as its own entity in Springfield.”
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