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#UnSelfie for #GivingTuesday

Are you ready to UnSelfie for #GivingTuesday? Everyone has something they can do to make the world a little bit better, and today we’re celebrating the many ways our community of supporters give to support families served by Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care!

Join us! Post your UnSelfie with hashtag #UnSelfie to Facebook /KCHospice and /SolaceHouse/KC and be sure to tag us! 

Tweet us @KCHospice

Follow us on Instagram /kchpc and Pinterest /HospiceKC

Need inspiration? Below, we’ve started the ball rolling with just a few of the ways YOU inspire US!

# UnSelfie

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Terri is matching every dollar given to the 2019 Heart of Gold Campaign for Kansas City Hospice, up to $40,000.  Read her story.

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Giving Tuesday

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Giving Tuesday

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Giving Tuesday

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One of our amazing Sustaining Angel donors gives $57 each month to honor her husband who died at the age of 57. We were honored to care for him.

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Sanders Memorial .1K Run

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More than 600 people ran or walked “all the way” around the parking lot at Patrick’s Bar & No Grill for the annual Sanders Memorial .1K, raising over $39,000 for Kansas City Hospice!

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NorthCare Hospice House

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Lily and her human visit NorthCare Hospice House! Lily always knows who needs furry hugs.

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Giving Tuesday

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This award-winning volunteer plays and sings at patient bedsides at Kansas City Hospice House. Read Gary’s story.

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Top Drawer

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Another award-winner makes Jewelry for Hospice, sold exclusively at Top Drawer Resale Boutique, a benefit for Kansas City Hospice. Read Kathy’s story.

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Each and every day, volunteers serve meals to families visiting Kansas City Hospice House and NorthCare Hospice House! The families in our care are so grateful for their love and support. 

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Camp Erin and Camp Carousel are weekend overnight camps for grieving children and their families. They combine grief education and emotional support with fun camp activities.

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We have volunteers of all ages. These two young ladies volunteered to help at an event raising money for Solace House Center for Grief and Healing.

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2019 Heart of Gold Campaign

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About Us

 
The mission of Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care is to bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to people who are affected by life-limiting illness or by grief. Our vision is that each person in our community is valued from life through death and each family is supported in their grief.

 


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Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care provides comprehensive, expert care for all ages at all stages of serious illness.

Hospice Care

When the focus shifts to comfort instead of treatment, care comes to your home or nursing facility with a plan tailored to your needs, including emotional and spiritual support for the whole family.

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Hospice Care

Palliative Medicine Fellowship

Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care is the community clinical site for the University of Kansas Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. We're committed to developing physicians with specialty-level training in caring for patients with serious or terminal illness.

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Palliative Medicine Fellowship

Community-Based Palliative Care

Beginning as early as diagnosis and at any stage of serious illness, our nurse practitioners make home visits as needed to help coordinate your care and provide expert pain and symptom management.

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Community-Based Palliative Care
Hospice House

Hospice House

When symptoms cannot be easily managed at home, two hospice houses provide 24/7 expert care in comfortable home-line settings where family members can be relieved of caregiving duties to focus on loved ones.

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Carousel Pediatric Care

Carousel provides palliative and hospice care for perinatal and for babies through young adults with a dedicated team of pediatric nurses, social workers, chaplains and other specialists.

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Carousel Pediatric Care
Solace House

Solace House

Our center for grief and healing supports individuals and families who have been impacted by the death of a loved one, whether anticipated, or sudden and unexpected. We provide opportunities to share, listen, learn and heal with peer group support from age 3 through adult.

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