Mount Carmel Hospice House

CHC/SEK opened their doors in 1997 on the second floor of a 90-year-old elementary school building as a community outreach of Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center. Their purpose was to ensure that all children were “ready to learn” by providing physicals and immunizations, no matter their parents’ ability to pay. It was a mission of love in an area of critical need – a community that continues to have some of the highest rates of childhood poverty in Kansas.

They quickly realized these children’s parents and grandparents needed care too. They expanded their services and facility to provide quality, affordable healthcare to patients of all ages. By 2003, they had become an independent organization with 11 employees that cared for 3,300 patients providing medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, and support services across eastern Kansas and northeast Oklahoma.
They are in the early stages of adding a social model hospice home to their services.