When Sandy Doolittle began working at Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care in 1999, there was just one office serving both Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS. There were fewer than 50 patients and Sandy was the first full-time bereavement coordinator to work at the site.
Olivia Courtney graduated from Ohio’s Bowling Green State University in May of 2015 and shortly thereafter became a volunteer manager with Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care’s Cincinnati site. Olivia wasn’t a stranger to Crossroads when she was hired. Like so many professionals in Crossroads’ Patient Support Services department, Olivia joined Crossroads as a college intern.
Carrefour Associates, LLC is the management firm for Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care. Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the corporate team of 45 is small but mighty, overseeing the growing interstate provider of hospice and palliative care with 11 locations in seven states serving 2,300 patients with 1,350 employees.
She might have been dreaming about celebrity headlines as a star vocal student at her large high school in Kansas City, Missouri, but the way Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care Vice President of Patient Support Services Sherri Bickley remembers it, she knew as a young adult that she had a calling to work in end-of-life care.
Internships are a cornerstone to a full college experience. They give students an opportunity to learn on the job so that they are ready to enter the workforce upon graduation. Val Criswell knows the value of an internship at Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care firsthand. Starting as an intern with Crossroads in 2002, Val now serves as the Support Services Director in Crossroads’ Independence, MO office.
Along the way to our milestone 25-Year Anniversary, the staff at Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care have filled their careers with thousands of beautiful moments with their patients and colleagues. We asked a few of our longest-serving staff members to share some of theirs.
