Hospice care · Emporia & the Flint Hills

Under a wide sky, nobody has to do this alone.

Hospice nurses, aides, a chaplain and a social worker who drive the county roads to you, from Strong City to Hartford, so the last season can be spent at home.

Talk with us What hospice includes

Golden tallgrass prairie under a wide evening sky, with a fence line running toward the hills

Who we are

A small team that knows the roads and the people on them.

We are fourteen people in an office on Commercial Street. Most of us grew up within forty miles of it. When we come to your house, we already know where the cattle guard is and which gravel road washes out in a spring rain.

Hospice is not about giving up. It is about comfort, honesty and good days: pain under control, breath that comes easier, and a family that knows what to expect and who to call.

— Margaret Ostlund, RN, Executive Director

A daughter holding her father close in the afternoon sun

Care & services

What hospice brings to the house

Covered by the Medicare hospice benefit, Kansas Medicaid and most private plans for the illness hospice is treating. Families usually owe nothing for these services.

The care team at home

Registered nurse case manager
One nurse who visits on a set schedule, manages symptoms and calls your doctor.
Medicare
Hospice aide visits
Bathing, shaving, lotion, fresh sheets and a little company, two to five days a week.
Medicare
Nurse on call through the night
A real nurse answers. If a call isn't enough, she drives out, even at 3 a.m.
24/7
Hospice physician oversight
Our medical director works with your own doctor on the plan of care.
Medicare
Medications, supplies and equipment
Hospital bed, oxygen and comfort medicines for the hospice diagnosis, brought to the farm or the apartment.
Delivered

For the whole family

Medical social worker
Advance directives, VA forms, funeral planning and the hard family meetings.
Included
Chaplain
For every faith or none. We gladly work with your own pastor or priest.
Included
Trained volunteers
A neighbor to sit with Dad for a few hours so you can get to the store or sleep.
Free
Respite stays
A short stay in a contracted facility when the family caregiver needs rest.
Up to 5 days
Grief support after a death
Calls, letters and a grief group that meets Tuesday evenings in Emporia.
13 months

Photo tour

Ordinary days, at home

A patient reading the paper at the table by the open porch door

A hospice aide sitting beside a patient on the edge of his bed

A daughter resting her head on her father's shoulder at the kitchen table

An old married couple's hands folded together on the table

An older couple walking through a meadow of white wildflowers

A woman reading her Bible in the quiet of an empty church

Sample family reviews

From families in the Flint Hills

Dad wanted to see the pasture burns one more spring. Our nurse timed his visits around it, and we drove him out on the ridge road at dusk to watch the fire lines. He talked about it for days.

Beth K.Daughter of a patient, Chase County

I called at two in the morning, sure I was doing everything wrong. The nurse talked me through it, then said she'd be there in forty minutes. She was there in thirty-five.

Doug R.Husband of a patient, Madison