The Visiting Nurse Association of Texas (VNA) is proud to announce that we have been named finalists in two categories for D CEO’s 2025 Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards, presented in partnership with the Communities Foundation of Texas. The recognition highlights the extraordinary work being done across our organization to serve patients, families, and the North Texas community.
The VNA Hospice Team has been selected as a finalist for Nonprofit Team of the Year, honoring the compassionate, collaborative care our hospice team provides every day to adult and pediatric patients and their loved ones during life’s most meaningful moments.
Each day, the team delivers exceptional comprehensive and equitable end-of-life care across 16 counties in North Texas. As a mission-driven nonprofit, the team exemplifies excellence not only in clinical care, but in the breadth of holistic services it provides to patients and families during life’s most vulnerable moments. The team, an interdisciplinary group of nurses, physicians, social workers, chaplains, Certified Child Life Specialists, therapists, bereavement professionals, and volunteers, works collaboratively to address the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of their patients. Care is delivered primarily in the home, allowing patients to remain in familiar surroundings while receiving expert symptom management, care coordination, and compassionate guidance for families navigating end-of-life decisions.
In the past year, VNA strengthened its footprint and impact by partnering with Forefront Living to be the preferred hospice partner as Faith Presbyterian Hospice wound down operations and will be providing inpatient services at Forefront Living’s T. Boone Pickens Center, significantly expanding in-home and inpatient hospice capacity and reinforcing VNA’s leadership in mission-based end-of-life care. This milestone, combined with the development of Katherine’s House—North Texas’ first community funded assisted living facility for seriously ill patients with no place to receive care—demonstrates VNA’s ability to identify unmet community needs and respond with sustainable, mission-driven solutions.
For more information about our Hospice Program, please go to: https://www.vnatexas.org/our-services/hospice-care/
In addition, Katherine’s House has been named a finalist for Most Successful Fundraising or Awareness Campaign.
Katherine’s House, the first and only Assisted Living Facility in North Texas for seriously ill individuals with no place to turn, will provide a safe, compassionate place for patients without adequate housing, caregivers or resources to spend their final days with dignity. For these individuals, Katherine’s House represents more than a healthcare facility. It is a place of belonging, peace, and comfort—a home-like environment where those who have faced extraordinary barriers can spend their final days in safety, compassion, and connection.
Spearheaded by VNA President and CEO Chris Culak and Campaign Chair and longtime VNA Champion Lynn McBee, Katherine’s House is the centerpiece of one of VNA’s most successful capital and operational campaigns in its 92-year history, representing a transformative effort to address one of North Texas’s most urgent and overlooked healthcare gaps. The campaign launched in May 2025 with an initial goal of raising $1.5 million in its first year toward a total goal of $5 million to fund building renovations and the first five years of operations. Through strong leadership, compelling storytelling, and deep donor engagement, the effort surpassed expectations at a remarkable pace. In less than one year, the campaign raised $4.2 million—nearly tripling its first-year target and placing the project within reach of full funding well ahead of its projected opening of Winter 2027.
The success of the fundraising campaign reflects not only exceptional funding results, but also a powerful shift in awareness and commitment across the community. It stands as a testament to mission-driven leadership, disciplined strategy, and profound empathy, uniting donors, hospitals, service providers, and civic partners around an essential and long-overdue extension of care for North Texas’s most overlooked residents.
For more information about Katherine’s House, please go to: https://www.vnatexas.org/blog/katherines-house/