The Frames Project
In The Frame: Kevin Guest House
The Framework Project is a unique series of art installations framing beautiful views throughout the City of Buffalo and in Niagra Falls. The project draws attention to locations shaping the City’s landscape while highlighting community partners. This installation frames Kevin Guest House on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
Kevin Guest House is America’s first independent healthcare hospitality house. For 50 years, the house has provided an essential home away from home for patients and families traveling to receive state-of-the-art healthcare for critical illness in Buffalo. No guest is ever turned away from The House due to an inability to pay for accommodation during care. Average stays at the house range from 5 to 10 days or longer, putting alternative accommodation out of reach for many. Kevin Guest House is a beacon for more than 2,000 guests every year. It allows families to focus on what is most important at a crucial time in their lives: healing and hope.
Founded in 1972 by Cyril & Claudia Garvey of Sharon, PA in honor of their son Kevin,Kevin Guest House has served as the inspiration for the first Ronald McDonald House, and more than 600 indispensable houses across the country and worldwide.
More than 60,000 guests have stayed at the house since its inception. While many guests come from WNY and the Southern Tier, the house also serves guests from 49 states, Canada, and 11 other countries. All patients and their families are welcome regardless of age or medical condition.
Kevin Guest House is a non-profit organization, and its campus is made up of four historic properties. The original house, known as the blue House, has 10 guest rooms which can host 20 Individuals, the Carriage House and Yellow Brick buildings house four transplant recovery apartments, while the newly opened Russell J. Salvatore Hospitality House has four large family suites that accommodate up to six guests each and two additional transplant recovery apartments.
This wonderful space offers guests, sanctuary, healing, and hope in a home away from home.
The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
BNMC brings people together to create positive social and economic impact within our community. We manage the premiere innovation district and economic engine of WNY, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, and are building an innovation ecosystem that focuses on breaking down barriers to a higher quality of life for all in our region.
For more than 20 years, BNMC has been at the forefront of Buffalo’s resurgence. We led the creation of the medical campus attracting over $1.4 billion in public and private investment; sparked a new entrepreneurial spirit in Buffalo; spearheaded new models around sustainable energy, environments, and transportation options; advanced important efforts around access to healthy food and active living opportunities; and incubated a range of start-up companies and programs in pursuit of these objectives.
Today, we manage a 120+ acre urban innovation district that is home to over 200 public and private companies with over 16,000 employees that brings 1.5 million patients and visitors annually to our Buffalo district.
