It only took an anguished phone call from a friend for Ann Armstrong Dailey to spring into action. Her friend’s child had been suffering from cancer and the cancer had advanced too much for it to be treated. The boy now required round the clock care but they couldn’t find a hospice hospital for children.

Ann, right then, decided that it was up to her to make sure that hospice care would be available for kids who needed them. This was the start of Children’s Hospice International.
It has been 20 years since then. CHI has been a vital force for setting up hospice are models around the US. They continue to provide technical assistance and implementation materials for various hospice programs in 47 other countries as well.