{"id":379,"date":"2026-05-24T13:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:39:23","slug":"nonprofit-looks-to-expand-in-home-care-for-medically-fragile-bay-area-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit looks to expand in-home care for medically fragile Bay Area kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Since its establishment in 2005, Coastal Kids Home Care has expanded in directions that surprised even its co-founder.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=377\">NCS roundup: O\u2019Dowd stuns top seed McKinleyville in baseball quarterfinal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounseling kind of came out of nowhere,\u201d Margy Mayfield told a group of supporters and clients at a May 7 reception at San Jose\u2019s Palermo restaurant. \u201cI never thought we\u2019d have a standalone mental health program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit, which has offices in Salinas and downtown San Jose, now has plans to expand its service area to provide pediatric home health care for children with complex medical conditions in communities across Santa Clara County, San Mateo County and East Bay counties.<\/p>\n<p>Coastal Kids currently provides services including shift nursing, home health nursing and therapies, and palliative care to children and their families in a one- to four-hour radius of its main office in Salinas. The service area includes Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and San Benito counties.<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield said expanding the nonprofit\u2019s reach will allow them to go into areas where these services aren\u2019t provided.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=375\">Latest line: A good week for Sam Altman, a bad week for Tom Steyer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get calls all the time asking us to go places we can\u2019t go,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the restrictions, Coastal Kids had managed to make about 105,000 home visits and serve 12,000 medically fragile children as of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Families who have been on the receiving end of Coastal Kids\u2019 services say that nonprofit has a lasting impact. At 5 months old, Susi and Matt Watson\u2019s daughter Claire was diagnosed with Mucolipidosis type II (also known as I-cell disease), a progressively debilitating disorder with profound medical and developmental impacts. In 2019 Susi Watson became aware of Coastal Kids at a San Jose Sharks game where the nonprofit was the beneficiary of a raffle. Until her death in 2021, Claire received in-home nursing care and the whole family benefited from the palliative care program, which provided music therapy for Claire and counseling for her parents and siblings.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis year is five years since Claire left us, and Coastal Kids is still part of our lives,\u201d Susi Watson said in a speech at the reception.<\/p>\n<p>Coastal Kids Home Care is holding an open house on June 5, 4:30-7:30 p.m., at its Salinas office, located at 427 Pajaro St. RSVP to https:\/\/bit.ly\/4v7AJGf.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=370\">San Mateo assessor race: Irizarry banks on experience, while Canepa says office needs outsider\u2019s vision<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastal Kids looks to extend its reach into East Bay, San Mateo County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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