Taylor Swift Visits Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City

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Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City days after wrapping her record-breaking Eras Tour.

Swift, 34, was spotted meeting hospital staff and patients on Thursday, December 12.

“When the Queen shows up to work @taylorswift,” one staffer wrote via Instagram Story, tagging the pop star’s account.

Swift stunned in an emerald-colored flannel shirtdress with knee-high brown boots. She also gifted signed copies of her Eras Tour Book to young patients.

“To Rylie, it was so awesome to meet you,” Swift wrote on the book’s cover, adding the date and her signature. “And to meet your mom and Bo! Love, Taylor.”

Swift, who turns 35 on Friday, December 13, finished her Eras Tour this past weekend. She’s now in Kansas City with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, the tight end for the Chiefs.

| Taylor at the Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City today pic.twitter.com/57mxCod3Wx

— Taylor Swift Updates (@swifferupdates) December 12, 2024

Swift kicked off her Eras Tour, a three-hour concert celebrating most of her past and present albums, in March 2023. After traversing continents for nearly two years, the Grammy winner played her final show in Vancouver on Sunday, December 8.

“I’ve never played more shows on tour or toured longer than I have with the Eras Tour,” Swift said during her Friday, December 6. “There are so many reasons for that, like, nobody’s backstage saying, ‘You gotta do more shows.’ I decided to make this tour the longest I’ve ever done because you have made this feel like so much more than a concert tour in so many ways.”

She continued, “I’ve been going on tour since I was 15 years old, and this has felt different in every single way. It’s felt like this escape to a planet where nothing but joy and passion and togetherness and camaraderie exists every night coming out to these crowds.”

Swift also made sure that her touring crew received recognition, gifting them $197 million in bonuses over the past two years. Us Weekly confirmed that recipients included the truck drivers, caterers, instrument techs, merch team, lighting, sound, production staff and assistants, carpenters, dancers, band, security, choreographers, pyrotechnics, riggers, hair, makeup, wardrobe, physical therapists and video team.

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Kelce, however, was unable to attend the final concert as he had a football game that same night. After the Chiefs beat the Los Angeles Chargers, he gave “Tay” a sweet shout-out on his “New Heights” podcast.

“Shout-out to Tay, and the unbelievable Eras Tour has finally come to an end,” he gushed on the Wednesday, December 11, episode. “[She played] 149 or 152. I forget which one it was. Somewhere in there. A f— ton is how I sum it up. It’s pretty crazy.”

He added, “Shout-out to everybody that was a part of that show. Obviously, it’s her music, her tour and everything, but that was a full production, man. That thing was the best tour in the world because of a lot of people, but mostly because of Taylor.”

Kelce had attended tens of Eras concerts, even telling Us in May that the production was “unbelievable.”