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Hospice Care of Boulder and Broomfield Counties
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Description
About Us
HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties founded as Boulder County Hospice in 1976 is a Coloradolicensed Medicare and Medicaidcertified nonprofit healthcare organization serving Boulder Broomfield and Adams Counties and beyond High quality healthcare is important at every stage of life and we consider it a privilege to walk alongside those who are facing terminal illness coping with grief or seeking to learn more about these profound experiences HospiceCare physicians and interdisciplinary teams of nurses certified nursing assistants chaplains social workers and counselors help patients and families prepare for understand and make informed decisions at the end of life and throughout the grieving process
We urge you to contact us whenever you have questions about endoflife matters Our wide range of informative materials educational presentations and support services are available to individuals and organizations at anytime and most of them are free of charge
Mission
We provide compassionate endoflife care guide and comfort the grieving and educate our community
Vision
We serve an enlightened community that embraces death and loss as integral parts of the cycle of life
Values
Excellence in endoflife care
Superior customer service
Service to all regardless of ability to pay
Compassionate highlyskilled staff and volunteers
Leadership with integrity
Innovation in serving community needs
History
1976 Boulder County Hospice becomes the first hospice in Colorado
1977 Fifteen patients in the first year
1981 Become national training site for new hospice organizations
1982 First PIZAZZ dinnerdance fundraiser
1983 Irene Rothgerber donates home on Marine Street which becomes new headquarters
1991 Satellite office opens at the James House in Longmont
1995 Name changes to Hospice of Boulder County
1999 HospiceCare Center opens in leased space on Balfour campus in Louisville
2001 Services are consolidated in new Lafayette office
2003 Name changes to HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties
2005 Thrift Shop and Grief amp Education Center open in Boulder
2007 Longmont office opens and Palliative Home Health is introduced
2008 Served 1372 terminally ill patients and families
Provided direct grief support to 1424 people
358 volunteers donated 24584 hours of service
2545 people attended 147 community presentations
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