KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC

Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care (KCH) was founded in 1980 and was one of the first 100 hospices in the US. KCH is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit hospice and grief support providers in the Kansas City area. We live our mission: To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief. Our vision is clear: Each person in our community is valued from life through death and each family is supported in their grief. Our Guiding Principles are Compassion, Enrichment, Choices, Expertise, Respect, Balance, Stewardship, and Excellence. As a mission-based safety net nonprofit, KCH serves all without regard to complexity of needs or ability to pay. KCH provides individuals with a range of the highest quality community-based palliative care and hospice services for infants through centenarians facing a serious illness or life-limiting condition. In addition to Community-Based Palliative Care and Home Hospice we also provide hospice care at our Kansas City Hospice House™ and NorthCare Hospice House. KCH provides Carousel Pediatric Care, the leading pediatric hospice in the greater Kansas City area, with a dedicated multidisciplinary team fully trained and focused on the unique needs of pediatric hospice patients and their families. KCH also offers a complex array of grief support for families. This includes a unique mental health counseling program, Passages, as well as Solace House grief support groups and grief support Camps for children and families who have experienced the death of a loved one, whether anticipated or sudden and unexpected. Grief support helps families emerge from tragedy with strength and understanding. Our compassionate caregivers have the unique honor of being an intimate support to families, their children, and friends, during the important time at the end of someone’s life and through the grieving and healing process.