Volunteers Tackle COVID-19 during National Volunteer Week
by Melissa Basgall, Volunteer Manager at Kansas City Hospice April 19th-25th is National Volunteer Appreciation Week! Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care is fortunate to have a passionate, dedicated team of volunteers. COVID-19 is a challenge that they have met...
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Published: April 22, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, General, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views, Our Stories, Stories of Support, Volunteer Stories
Vulnerable families in KC need you now
[caption id="attachment_18132" align="alignright" width="400"] The Gold Team is one of six home care teams at Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care. With support by the inpatient teams at Kansas City Hospice House and NorthCare Hospice, our home care teams offer...
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Published: March 31, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, Hospice at Home, Kansas City Hospice, Our Stories, Stories of Support
Help for Hospice House
They say that “food is love,” and so many people have cared for the families at our hospice houses by bringing meals, homemade treats, and other food. So many of you have a tradition of coming time after time and...
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Published: March 27, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, Kansas City Hospice, Our Stories, Stories of Support, Volunteer Stories
Reflections of a hospice chaplain
By Joel Carmer, Chaplain at Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care Reflections of a hospice chaplain: Winning the fight of being dormant Today, I am void of the volume of peace that I would like to have. I know many...
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Published: March 4, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, General, Grief Support, Our Stories
Hannah’s Story – a teen in hospice
The Carousel Pediatric Team at Kansas City Hospice meets some pretty spectacular young people, like Hannah, a teen needing hospice care. Watch her story. [ebs_oscvideo type="vimeo" link="https://vimeo.com/392548214" dimensions="16by9"] Update - since the story was filmed, doctors found a new treatment...
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Published: February 19, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, General, Home Health Care, Kansas City Hospice, Our Stories
Peace Pole at Kansas City Hospice House
This month we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the addition of the beautiful Peace Pole to the gardens at Kansas City Hospice House. The family of Marty O’Connor Ketteler commissioned this beautiful symbol of peace to stand forever in her...
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Published: February 17, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, General, Hospice Care, Kansas City Hospice, Our Stories, Stories of Support, Volunteer Stories
Mustache Month for Carousel is a FUN-raiser for a very serious cause
Last year, we set out to design a fundraising campaign for what you might consider our most serious of causes. And, we came up with Mustache Month for Carousel. Mustache Month for Carousel is a FUN-raiser for a very serious...
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Published: January 28, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, Kansas City Hospice, Our Stories
Confessions of a ‘Stache Faker
By Wanda Kelsey-Mendez, Communications Manager at Kansas City Hospice February is Mustache Month for Carousel and I'm a 'Stache Faker for the cause! I didn't want to sit by the sidelines and watch men grow hairy lips when Kansas City...
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Published: January 22, 2020
Categories: Compassionate Care, Home Health Care, Hospice Care, Kansas City Hospice, Our Stories, Stories of Support, Volunteer Stories
Behind the Scenes in Hospice
by Paul Weddle, COO for Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care Behind the Scenes in Hospice Day is Monday, November 25, 2019. Several years ago Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care started a new tradition, Behind the Scenes in Hospice Day! We started this...
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Published: November 18, 2019
Categories: Compassionate Care, General, Kansas City Hospice
A Mother’s Love
[ebs_button style="btn-default btn-lg btn-block" type="link" target="true" title="DONATE NOW AND DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT" link="/HEART-OF-GOLD/"] A Mother’s Love Most of us will never experience the heartache, or the unending love, that comes with parenting a child with profound disabilities. Yet sometimes it’s...
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Published: November 12, 2019
Categories: Compassionate Care, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views, Our Stories, Stories of Support
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