Crescent Cove
Crescent Cove offers care and support to children and young adults with a shortened life-expectancy, and their families who love them.
The Crescent Cove Respite & Hospice Home for Kids is a vibrant and joyful home-away-from home for kids with life-threatening conditions for overnight respite care and sacred end-of-life care where each moment is embraced and celebrated. All stays at Crescent Cove to kids and families are at no out-of-pocket cost.
Making moments count for kids & Families
The Crescent Cove Respite & Hospice Home for Kids opened May 2018 on Twin Lakes in Brooklyn Center, MN. This joyful home is the first and only such center in Minnesota and the third in the United States that is an option beyond the hospital or home environment for compassionate respite or end-of-life care.
Kids and young adults, 0-21 years old, are able to stay in one of six bedrooms. Along with therapy rooms and recreational space, a family suite is available so that families may stay together while enjoying a temporary get-away from the constant demands of caregiving. Nursing professionals trained in pediatric palliative care are on-site to provide daily care, meals, pain and symptom control, and Crescent Cove has a network of therapists to engage kids through music, art, or pet therapy, healing touch, and spiritual care.
In metro areas around the United States, there are over 4,700 hospice homes for adults, but Crescent Cove is only the third designed just for children and their unique needs along with Ryan House in Phoenix, AZ and George Mark House in San Leandro, CA. There are currently over 50 children’s hospice homes offering palliative care in the United Kingdom, several in Canada, two in Australia and many others around the world.
“Crescent Cove has allowed us to do things we wouldn’t have been able to do. To be alone as a couple, or with Ashley’s older sister, or even just getting a good night’s sleep. And it’s good for Ashley, too. She’s so social and gets so much joy out of being with others.”
~ Ashley's Mom, Wendy
To learn more about our mission, visit CrescentCove.org