Can you deliver to a patient room at Stormont Vail?
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Yes, and it is one of the most common orders in this market. Stormont Vail at 1500 SW 10th Avenue is a large campus with more than one way in, so give us the unit or floor along with the name as the hospital has it recorded rather than a family nickname — room numbers change between admission and afternoon, and the unit is what survives that. We time the drop inside visiting hours. Ask for a low build that fits a bedside table beside the water jug, and unless you know the patient is on a general medical floor, ask for it unscented and lily-free as well.
What about the St. Francis campus on SW 7th Street?
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Also routine, and only about a mile from Stormont Vail, which means the two get confused more often than you would expect. The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus is an older hospital under newer ownership, and families sometimes say the old name and the new one interchangeably. Tell us the street if you are unsure — SW 7th Street is St. Francis, SW 10th Avenue is Stormont Vail — and we will resolve the rest. Same requests apply: name the unit, keep it low, and say if the floor has asked for no scent. A phone number for whoever is visiting saves a call back to you.
Can flowers be delivered to the VA hospital on Gage Boulevard?
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Yes, and it is the shortest hospital run we make — the Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center is at 2200 SW Gage and the shop is at 1709 SW Gage, a few blocks apart on the same street. A federal facility handles arrivals its own way, generally through a main entrance and a staffed or volunteer desk rather than a walk to the bed, so plan on a handoff there. Give the veteran's full name as the VA has it and the ward or unit if the family knows it. If you are sending from out of state, add a phone number for a local relative in the notes.
Should I ask for no lilies or low scent?
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Yes, whenever the patient is on an oncology or infusion floor, in intensive care, or recovering from anything respiratory. Write it in the order and the build changes before the first stem is cut. The reason is comfort rather than regulation: a strongly perfumed arrangement in a small room with a closed door stops being a gift, especially when someone is nauseated, and a nurse who has to relocate it has better uses for those five minutes. Two related asks worth adding — request a container that holds its own water, since nursing floors have no spare vases, and check whether the unit takes soil plants before sending one.
What does a get-well arrangement cost in Topeka?
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The listed arrangements in this selection start at $58.49. Delivery charges, taxes and optional extras are confirmed for the selected florist and recipient before payment.
She may be discharged today. Should I still send to the hospital?
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Probably not. Stays at both Topeka hospitals are short, and an afternoon delivery can easily reach a room that was vacated at noon, at which point the arrangement either rides home in a car boot or waits at a desk. Send it to the house instead, ideally the day after, when the household has settled and somebody is there to take it. If you want something waiting at the hospital regardless, we will run it — just give us the unit and a mobile number. For a home delivery, ask for a signature rather than a porch leave if the weather is doing anything Kansas does in July or January.
The patient was transferred to Kansas City. Is that inside your radius?
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Yes. This market runs a 60-mile radius rather than a tight urban one, and it reaches the hospitals Topeka refers out to: The University of Kansas Health System on Rainbow Boulevard, about an hour east on I-70, and Children's Mercy for a child. On a campus that size the hospital name is not an address — name the tower, floor, unit or service exactly as the family relayed it, and include the phone number of whoever is at the bedside, because a large hospital will route an unspecified delivery to a central desk and it can sit there. Pediatric floors are the strictest about scent and soil, so ask for lily-free and low-scent by default.
Can I send flowers to the nurses or to a clinic instead of the patient?
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Yes, and it is a better order than most people expect. A bouquet at a unit desk is kept by a whole shift instead of decorating one room, and it clears every bedside constraint on this page at once — height, scent, soil, discharge timing. Name the unit or the department as precisely as you can, whether that is a floor at Stormont Vail, a Cotton O'Neil clinic somewhere across town, or a team at the VA. Put the message on the card rather than trying to list names. Families most often do this after a long admission, and it reaches the people who were there at three in the morning.