Much to Celebrate at Kevin Guest House Today! While we celebrate our 47th Anniversary, one of our guests is also celebrating a milestone birthday. Many guests are with us though holidays and special occasions, including the Reddons. Terry Reddon, who turns 60 years young today, came to Kevin Guest House with her husband Eddie from...Continue Reading
KEVIN GUEST HOUSE CELEBRATES 47 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Heart Award honorees will be celebrated for their outstanding generosity Date: Thursday, July 25, 2019 Time: 5:30 p.m. Press Conference Where: Kevin Guest House, 782 Ellicott Street, Buffalo What: Kevin Guest House is celebrating 47 years of providing compassionate guest care to patients and...Continue Reading
For nearly ten years, Susan G. Komen® Upstate New York has been supporting Kevin Guest House by alleviating the financial burden for breast cancer patients who do not have easy access to specialized treatment close to home. In 2019, Kevin Guest House was awarded a $5,000 grant from Komen Upstate New York to cover the accommodations for...Continue Reading
Forseti Protection Group, a leading security and consulting firm, has formed a strategic partnership with Kevin Guest House. As the first independent, healthcare hospitality house in America, Kevin Guest House has served as a model for over 600 houses across the country. Their mission of providing a comfortable and supportive home away from home for...Continue Reading
Families are complicated. Theirs is no different. For years, Jamie Patterson was estranged from her family. She eventually reconciled, after her sister, Jennifer Carey, had been battling chronic myeloid leukemia. The sisters, from the Adirondack region of New York State, were back together. Which was good on so many levels. But neither could predict just...Continue Reading
It started at a Buffalo Sabres game. Jess Kardashian was at KeyBank Center for a hockey game and struck up a conversation with the gentleman seated next to her. They discussed volunteering and her seatmate mentioned Kevin Guest House. Jess had never heard of it. Once home, she looked up the organization and immediately it...Continue Reading
He went from a guest to a volunteer and Fran Thomas has been one of the backbones of our amazing corps at Kevin Guest House. Now he’s a recognized as one of the most committed volunteers in Western New York. On March 28, 2019, Fran won the Commitment to Service Award at the Volunteer WNY:...Continue Reading
For a while, Amy Sumbrum did her best to connect patients with each other informally, creating a sort of ad hoc support group. She understood they were dealing with side effects that other cancer patients didn’t endure. As a speech-language pathologist in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center,...Continue Reading
Jonathan Gutchess is a cancer survivor. But the triumph of beating cancer isn’t the end of his story. In many ways, it’s just beginning. Diagnosed in July of 2016 at age 49 with primary-oropharynx right tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma staged II, Jonathan was treated near his home in Dryden, N.Y., at the Cayuga Medical Center....Continue Reading
Jack Kerner knows the value of having a good support staff. For 25 years he played a pivotal role for St. Bonaventure basketball, keeping the score book for both the men’s and women’s teams. His job was to keep track not only of points but fouls, substitutions, time outs – all the little things that...Continue Reading
