Guiding Hands

Primary specialty

Registered Respiratory TherapistTaxonomy code 227900000X

Legal business name

GUIDING HANDS

Doing business as

Guiding Hands Health Services

Practice address

437 SE Ashton Dr
Lees Summit, MO 64063-1059

Phone

(816) 267-9398

NPI assigned

Dec 12, 2025

Organization subpart

No

Registry information is reported by the provider to CMS and is not verified. About this source

Authorized official

Name

Ms. Melvon Makun, RN, RRT, AE-CNPI 1780422998

Title

Owner

Phone

(816) 267-9398

Specialties & licenses 4

Addresses

Other names 1

• Guiding Hands Health Services Doing business as

Practitioners 1

Individual providers connected to this organization through Medicare benefit reassignment, Care Compare group membership or National Provider Directory roles.

• Melvon Makun, RN, RRT, AE-C

  • Registered Nurse
  • Independence, MO
  • NPI 1780422998
  NPD Authorized official

The complete NPPES record for this NPI in the NPI Registry API format.

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• Gary James Groening, OTR/L
• Mikaela Groff
• Cara Gruhala, ED.S., LPC, NCC,
• Adam Grumke, M.D.
• Kristina Lea Guarino, LCSW
• Paul Joseph Guidos III, M.D.
• O Allen Guinn III, MD
• Tamara-Jane Harding Gum, CRNA
• Aastha Gupta, PSY.D.
• Cheryl Gutekunst

• Registered Respiratory Therapist in Lees Summit, MO
• Providers in Lees Summit, MO by specialty
• Registered Respiratory Therapist in Missouri

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): identity, addresses, specialties, licenses, identifiers and endpoints. Last updated by the provider on Dec 12, 2025; self-reported and not verified by CMS. Specialty names from the NUCC taxonomy.
• National Provider Directory (CMS): practice roles, locations, licenses, networks and endpoints.

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