About Us

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! dinner/dance 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 & Education Center open in Boulder

2007 Longmont office opens and Palliative Home Health is introduced

2009 Served 1,387 terminally ill patients and families
Provided direct grief support to 2,067 people
540 volunteers donated 26,964 hours of service
3,508 people attended 225 community presentations