When Heather and Patrick Wong learned they were expecting their first child, they realized they had a lot of decisions to make—from gift registries to baby names. But they tell everyone that the most important decision they made was choosing University Health for their daughter’s birth.

At the time, Patrick worked for the Consulate of Germany in Kansas City and also runs his own IT company. An artist and entrepreneur, Heather was teaching art classes and owned Paper Birch Landing, a small mid-town boutique gallery dedicated to emerging artists. Still, they found time to visit hospitals and birthing centers across the metropolitan area and on both sides of the state line.