University Health Lakewood Medical Center is a 110-bed acute care and outpatient hospital located in Kansas City, Missouri.

[1] The origins of University Health Lakewood Medical Center began in 1851 with the purchase of 160 acres in eastern Jackson County, Missouri to create a "poor farm" by the Jackson County courts to "care for poor persons".

In 1906, a $250,000 bond issue was passed to build a hospital on the poor farm site.

The cornerstone was laid for Patterson Hall, later known as "The Jackson County Home for the Aged and Infirm" in 1908.

In 1928, Jackson County Court presiding judge Harry S. Truman advocated for the establishment of a public hospital in addition to the existing care home.