KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas Board of Healing Arts announced Friday it has suspended a Kansas City-area doctor’s license.
The emergency suspension was for Dr. Rebecca S. Hierholzer, who is listed on several hospital websites and is licensed to practice emergency medicine. She's also the founder of a local sexual assault awareness organization.
Hierholzer, who received her doctoral degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, also is licensed to practice emergency medicine in Missouri. That state's Division of Professional Registration doesn't list any current discipline.
The public order in Kansas, which was posted Friday, references a motion filed before the board’s Disciplinary Panel on March 26.
In the order, the panel found that “grounds exist for disciplinary action” and the allowing Hierholzer to continue to practice would “constitute an imminent danger to the public heath and safety.”
Hierholzer founded Conversa, a nonprofit that serves sexual assault victims in various capacities, in 2000. The organization had no comment about the suspension.
"We are unable to comment on Dr. Hierholzer's suspension as our organization was not involved," Conversa Program Director Sharon Colbert said in an email to 41 Action News. "COVERSA services are provided by a highly trained team of nurse examiners and our medical director Dr. (Heather) Isom."
Hierholzer's residence is listed in Leawood, Kansas.
