Quick Facts About KCHPC
• • • • • • Founded in 1980. Serves three counties in Kansas and six counties in Missouri. Employs 300 FTEs and 525 volunteers. Opened Kansas City Hospice House in 2006, a 32-bed inpatient facility. Average Daily Hospice Census: 289. Offers a range of non-hospice services: 2008: Launched Palliative Home Care. 2009: Acquired Solace House Counseling Center, providing grief and bereavement support for children and adults. 2009: Opened Passages, providing counseling services for difficult life transitions. 2010: Introduced Kansas City Palliative Medicine, providing physician consultation services to anyone in the community. Also serves as a clinical site for the University of Kansas Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship.
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