CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES

Colorado Palliative & Hospice Care strives to deliver high-quality end of life care to the Denver, Colorado Springs, and Front Range areas.

OUR VALUES FOR BUSINESS

We believe in essential values for running a business include:

• Having a purpose for the business’ existence
• Planning and executing smartly
• Mitigating risks
• Working hard to see increase

WE STRIVE TO MEET OUR VALUES THROUGH THE CARE WE PROVIDE

• Individualized and ethical care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical needs of people in the last phase of life, those dying from a terminal illness.
• A spirit and philosophy of caring that emphasizes comfort and dignity for the dying.
• Making it possible for the dying to remain independent for as long as possible.
• Emphasizing the control of pain and other symptoms and dying in familiar surroundings.
• Care centered on the patient, family, and caregiver.
• Staff that respects and responds to the unique differences in family or caregiver, lifestyle, values, and wishes

OUR VALUES HELP US TO ACHIEVE OUR MISSION

• Patients and their families are treated with dignity, respect, and compassion.
• Employees are the most valuable Hospice resource in providing quality patient-care services.
• The medical staff is well trained and committed to working together to achieve its goals.
• We will strive to provide technology and equipment that is state-of-the-art.
• We will offer facilities that are modern, attractive, and well maintained.
• We will meet the standards and requirements of all licensing and accrediting agencies.
• Our management team and employees are committed to ensuring financial viability while maintaining standards of excellence.
• We will continue to be an excellent corporate citizen, having a positive influence in the business community.
• We will continue to be an innovative and progressive leader in the healthcare industry.

OUR ASSURANCES TO THOSE WE SERVE BUILD CONFIDENCE IN OUR ABILITY TO FULFILL OUR MISSION

• We follow and participate in Medicare compliance policies, procedure, education, and activities.
• We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and private insurance standards, with an emphasis on preventing fraud and abuse.
• We provide hospice care in the patient’s home to those patients who are certified as terminally ill, have a prognosis of six (6) months or less to live, have willingly elected the hospice, and are aware that the goal of care is directed toward relief of symptoms, rather than the cure of the underlying disease.
• To offer family or caregiver support with an interdisciplinary team using resources that avoid duplication, inadequate, incomplete, or underutilization of services.
• To maintain a commitment to realistic, cost-effective, and ethical management. To use available mechanisms for payment and manage operations to comply with all applicable statutes, regulations, and federal healthcare Hospice requirements.
• To provide sufficient services and oversight to patients who have received more than six (6) months of consecutive months of Hospice care.