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Welcome to Almost Home Kids

OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois is proud to offer an Almost Home Kids location - one of only three in the nation - in Peoria, Illinois.

Almost Home Kids provides transitional and respite care in a home-like setting for children with complex medical needs and their families.

Funded entirely through community donations, Almost Home Kids is a 12-bedroom, 21,000-square-foot home.

Who We Serve

We provide compassionate, competent care to children from birth to age 21 who have complex medical needs.

Often they are dependent on medical technology such as ventilators, tracheostomy tubes, G-tubes, central lines or oxygen. Almost Home Kids has served children with over 400 different diagnoses.

The most common include:


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Take a virtual tour of our home to see what makes Almost Home Kids unique!
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