1000th Implant

Dan Neuenswander is the 1,000th patient to receive a cochlear implant at Saint Luke’s Midwest Ear Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. Neuenswander received a hybrid cochlear implant to replace just the high pitches in his hearing. Doctor Charles Luetje, who founded the Ear Institute in 1980, performed the surgery. Patients have ranged from infants up to age 93.