{"id":64615,"date":"2022-06-24T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=64615"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:43:52","slug":"kate-poppert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/kate-poppert\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Poppert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_64619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64619\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64619\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070650\/Kate-Poppert-YMEP-tiny.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070650\/Kate-Poppert-YMEP-tiny.webp 840w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070650\/Kate-Poppert-YMEP-tiny-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070650\/Kate-Poppert-YMEP-tiny-768x480.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070650\/Kate-Poppert-YMEP-tiny-150x94.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070650\/Kate-Poppert-YMEP-tiny-200x125.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Poppert started a foundation to help her patients with basic needs. Photo: UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Giving treatment with a side of compassion, both on and off the clock<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s Kate Poppert\u2019s day off after working three 12-hour days in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The cancer nurse and mother of four has a long grocery list, is drowning in laundry and couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Poppert chooses to do extra tasks on her days off including washing dirty laundry for patients who must stay in the hospital for a minimum of 30 days as they get bone marrow transplants.<br \/>\n<div class=\"su-callout-box col-xs-12 col-sm-6 right\" style=\"background-color:#dce4e7; color:#2e3b44;\">\n<h2><strong>How you can help<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smallchoicesfoundation.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about Small Choices<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Give money.<\/li>\n<li>Give time.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage children to create get-well cards for patients.<\/li>\n<li>Purchase items like grocery and restaurant gift cards, blankets, hand sanitizer, adult puzzles, lotion, soft Kleenex, games, adult puzzles and fuzzy socks with grips.<\/li>\n<li>Adopt a family during the holidays.<\/li>\n<li>Help with sewing projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThings can be rough in the cancer world. We lose patients all too often,\u201d said Poppert, who has worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-university-of-colorado-hospital-uch\/\">UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital<\/a> for three years. \u201cPeople think it\u2019s crazy that I get involved during my free time. But, I\u2019m not good at disconnecting. It feeds me to come home and continue to help patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poppert has been an oncology nurse for close to 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>She traces her career choice to a formative experience when she was young along with inspiration from her mom, who still\u00a0puts in hours as a\u00a0nurse practitioner at age\u00a073.<\/p>\n<p>Poppert and friends survived a bad car accident after a school dance when she was 15. A driver blew through a stop sign and plowed into the car that a friend\u2019s mom was driving.<\/p>\n<p>Poppert spent weeks in the hospital recovering from a fused pelvis and other injuries and realized what a big difference a compassionate nurse can make. Then, she met her husband in college and learned that he had lost a brother to leukemia. Poppert earned a degree in biology, then became a registered nurse and has a special certification in bone marrow transplants.<\/p>\n<p>She found her calling serving blood cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Poppert always has done extra favors for patients and even\u00a0spent several years working for nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, she used her acquired experience\u00a0to start her own\u00a0foundation called <a id=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smallchoicesfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Small Choices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was to give patients and caregivers the opportunity to choose for themselves the kind of help that would best serve them during treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people get these diagnoses, so many options get taken away. They can\u2019t work. They can\u2019t pick up kids at school. I didn\u2019t want to just give people a bag full of stuff. I wanted them to choose what they needed,\u201d Poppert said.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, the foundation \u2014 which Poppert runs entirely with the help of volunteers and donors \u2014 became a lifeline for patients who couldn\u2019t have visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Poppert and her co-workers and volunteers started providing isolation relief and survival kits.<\/p>\n<p>Patients in need or those receiving treatment far from home could request weekly grocery deliveries, take-out orders and laundry services. Poppert and the foundation also provided \u201csurvival kits.\u201d Patients could choose items that previous patients had found most\u00a0helpful\u00a0like extended charging cords, cozy blankets, noise blocking headphones, and crafts like dog toys to make if they were missing their furry friend at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patients were\u00a0lonely\u00a0and scared. We were able to walk in with bags full of love,\u201d Poppert said.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley McCray is one of the recipients of Poppert&#8217;s kindness.<\/p>\n<p>McCray was diagnosed with leukemia a year ago and received a bone marrow transplant last summer. Since then, she\u2019s been fighting infections and has had to return to the hospital for weeks at a time.<\/p>\n<p>McCray turned 63 on Dec. 31 and had to spend both Christmas and her birthday in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Poppert did her best to comfort McCray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s always so on top of it and so conscientious,\u201d McCray said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re taking one step forward and two steps back, it\u2019s pretty discouraging. I was really at a low point when she showed up one day with a teddy bear. It brightened my spirits so much. She has no idea how spot on her timing was. She does things from her heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64620\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64620\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070654\/Shirley-wearing-socks-tiny.webp\" alt=\"Patient Shirley McCray wearing &quot;not alone&quot; socks in a hospital bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070654\/Shirley-wearing-socks-tiny.webp 800w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070654\/Shirley-wearing-socks-tiny-300x276.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070654\/Shirley-wearing-socks-tiny-768x706.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070654\/Shirley-wearing-socks-tiny-150x138.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/24070654\/Shirley-wearing-socks-tiny-200x184.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley McCray has to stay for weeks at a time in the hospital. Kate Poppert has been a &#8220;lifesaver&#8221; for McCray. Photo courtesy of Kate Poppert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McCray is from Fountain. With family members living at least 100 miles away in southern Colorado, McCray said the clean laundry has been especially helpful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe laundry service is worth a million bucks,\u201d McCray said. \u201cKate\u2019s been a lifesaver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doing laundry for patients may be one of Poppert\u2019s most intimate acts of kindness. But it brings great joy both to both Poppert and her patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShirley always tears up when I walk in the room. She knows I\u2019m there to help. You can feel so alone when you\u2019re in the hospital for so long,\u201d Poppert said. \u201cI love bringing back fresh, clean clothes. It really is the small things that make a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3 su-column-centered\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #930718\">You Make Extraordinary Possible<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Together, we recognize and honor the qualities within ourselves by shining a spotlight on how each and every one of us improve lives in big ways and small.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uchealthpoints.isrewards.com\/Recognition\/Award\/FormFlex.aspx?pr=JAwX5qZPSOA=&#038;m=N\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-flat\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#A22343;border-color:#821c36;border-radius:56px\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:40px;border-color:#be657c;border-radius:56px;text-shadow:none\"> Share a story<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving treatment with a side of compassion, both on and off the clock It\u2019s Kate Poppert\u2019s day off after working three 12-hour days in a row. 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