by David S. Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice Hospice nurses have extraordinary skills and extraordinary hearts! Kansas City Hospice is blessed to have an incredible team of caregivers. Each May we recognize the nurses who are often...
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Published: May 11, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views
by David S. Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice We are so pleased to share that Kathy Godbout has received the 2021 Lore and Mel Mallin Award for Employee Excellence! Kathy is a CNA at Kansas City Hospice...
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Published: April 6, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views, Our Stories
Jennifer Quinn, CNA, was awarded the 2021 Heart of Hospice Hospice Aide Award by the Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association on March 11, 2021. When you work in one of the largest area hospices, the only one with two...
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Published: March 23, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views, Our Stories
"Palliative care and hospice offer social workers the privilege of supporting individuals and families during some of the most universal—and vulnerable—life experiences: coping with serious illness, facing one’s mortality, the dying process, and bereavement. Hospice and palliative care social workers...
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Published: March 16, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views
On this International Women's Day, we celebrate the singular achievements of Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement and a truly remarkable woman. "You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your...
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Published: March 8, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, News and Views
as featured in Healthy Kansas City March/April 2021 Grief is one of our most fundamental emotions. From the first moments of life, we cry to feel better and to release emotion. We come together in families and in the community...
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Published: March 2, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, Grief Support, Kansas City Hospice
If social distancing is giving you the blues, we MUSTACHE you a question! How about joining us for the silliest FUN-raiser for a serious cause? Each February we liven up the cold winter and support kiddos in KC needing hospice...
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Published: February 16, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views, Our Stories, Volunteer Stories
This article about the hospice houses of Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Healthy KC Magazine. Kansas City Hospice House and NorthCare Hospice House offer expert and compassionate care in a serene, family-friendly...
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Published: February 9, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, Hospice Care, Kansas City Hospice, Our Stories, Stories of Support
Enjoy each day. A story of Carousel Pediatric Hospice Care, originally published in 2019. Balancing emotions and finding expressive outlets can be especially difficult during cancer treatment. Seventeen-year-old Hannah Viens is acutely aware of this challenge. “I struggle with emotions,...
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Published: February 2, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, General, Hospice at Home, Kansas City Hospice, Volunteer Stories
We Honor Veterans was please to offer veteran honors to Dwight Shipley. He spent two years in the Army during the Korean War, based with The Old Guard in Fort Myer, Virginia. In addition to military services and parades, his...
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Published: January 12, 2021
Categories: Compassionate Care, End of Life Care, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views, Our Stories
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