Honoring Our Pediatric Nurses: The Heartbeat of Gilchrist During Pediatric Nurses Care Week
At Gilchrist, we recognize the profound challenges that come with caring for a child facing a life-limiting illness. Though many think of hospice as a...
The Journey of Love from Nurse to Foster Parent
The Journey of Love from Nurse to Foster Parent March is Child Life Month, a time to recognize the impact child life specialists have on...
Pediatric Hospice Helps Family Through Brain Cancer Journey
Pediatric Hospice Helps Family Through Brain Cancer Journey In honor of Brain Cancer Awareness Month in May, we are shining the spotlight on a special...
Child Life Month: What Do Hospice Child Life Specialists Do?
March is Child Life Month, a time to celebrate the important work of child life professionals. Child life is an important component of Gilchrist’s work with patients and families. Children process experiences much differently...
Gilchrist Kids Guides Family Through the Unimaginable
Gilchrist Kids Guides Family Through the Unimaginable Shanika Robinson thought the worst was behind her. Her teenaged son Tre had battled leukemia for five years...
Bringing Their Baby Girl Home
For Lasonya and her family bringing their baby girl Latreya home was the best decision to make after the doctors left them with only two...
Gilchrist Kids Celebrates 11 Years of Caring for the Youngest of Patients
This July Gilchrist Kids celebrates 11-years of service. Gilchrist’s Kids is a pediatric hospice program providing medical care to children with life-limiting illnesses and emotional...
Keeping Her Safe
Shoshanna Drinks is a sweet, cherub-cheeked two-year-old who was born with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare genetic illness for which there is no cure. After developing...
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Reflections from a Pediatric Hospice Nurse
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month—a time to recognize and honor the children who are battling cancer, the children who are survivors of cancer, and...
Gilchrist Kids: When a Child Has a Life-Limiting Illness
When a child has a serious illness with no cure, it can become all-consuming for the parents and siblings of the sick child. There are...