Children's Mercy Don Chisolm Building

The Children’s Mercy Don Chisolm Building was a renovation project that included the construction of a new entrance wing. This $8.5 million, 44,000-square-foot project includes a daycare, obesity center and education center.

The building contains office space, exercise rooms for children and adults, metabolic kitchen, examination rooms, wet lab, specialized equipment for measuring body composition and metabolism, outdoor physical activity park and meeting rooms. 

The daycare serves Children’s Mercy Hospital staff as well as KU Medical Center and Truman Medical Center staff. The obesity center is a cutting-edge obesity research, treatment and community outreach center serving the Midwest, with a special focus on childhood and adolescent obesity. Aiming to serve 30,000 children in its first five years, the new Center for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Weight Management will be one of the nation’s largest public-private partnerships addressing obesity and one of the few nationwide focusing on childhood obesity. Scientists will pursue research that will be translated into child and adult clinics, programs, training and community education.