About the Mitten Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Foundation

Transforming Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care in Michigan

At The Mitten Pediatric Palliative & Hospice Foundation, we believe that every child’s life — no matter how brief or medically complex — deserves to be filled with comfort, dignity, and love.

What We Do Today

Today, we provide comfort, resources, advocacy, and compassionate support to families navigating serious illness, pediatric palliative care, and end-of-life care.

We support children and young adults from birth through age 21 who are living with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, including families navigating complex medical needs such as ventilator support and advanced life-sustaining technologies.

We collaborate with families, healthcare providers, and communities across Michigan to help children receive care that honors their dignity, individuality, comfort, and joy – while giving families the stability, understanding, resources, and support they need during an incredibly difficult journey.

What We Are Building for Tomorrow

Tomorrow, we will bring Michigan’s first dedicated residential pediatric hospice home to life.

It will be a warm, welcoming place where children can receive expert, compassionate pediatric end-of-life care in a home-like setting rather than a hospital.

A place where families are surrounded by medical, emotional, and practical support.

Where siblings can simply be siblings.

Where parents can focus on making memories instead of managing care.

And where no family has to face their hardest days alone.

A New Standard for Pediatric End-of-Life Care

Through the care we provide today and the pediatric hospice home we are building for tomorrow, The Mitten is working to create a new standard for pediatric end-of-life care in Michigan—one rooted in comfort, dignity, compassion, and love.

Our work is about more than hospice.

It is about giving families the support, choices, and compassionate care they deserve during some of life’s most difficult moments.

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