Our Legacy
We are the only nonprofit, community-based hospice in the Colorado Springs region.
Over four decades ago Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care pioneered the hospice movement in Colorado Springs and continues to be the community leader in this specialized field of medicine.
Our Mission
Our Core Beliefs
Hospice Care is About Living
Every day of life is precious. We honor and celebrate the lives of our patients by creating moments of joy and lasting memories.
Comfort and Dignity Should be Accessible to All
We serve our community with honesty and integrity, and support any and all who are in need of our services. Through responsible stewardship of our resources and dedicated support from our community, we ensure our continued ability to reach those in need, regardless of background or socioeconomic status.
Every Life Experience is Exceptional
Each patient’s journey is unique with different goals and challenges. We nurture the talents of our team members and volunteers to deliver care that is equally exceptional.
Where to Turn for Help and Hope
Our belief is that the more conversations we can start in our community about the difference Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care can make now, the more people we can support at one of the most difficult and vulnerable times in their lives.
And please help spread the news so that all of your friends and family will know, too.
Our Mindset Principles
Part of Care Synergy's Mission, Vision, and Core Values
At Care Synergy and our Affiliate organizations, our team members are exceptional professionals and our greatest organizational asset. The following Mindset Principles translate our Mission, Vision, and Core Values into behaviors and actions that we expect of each other and ourselves each and every day.
Mission Driven Service
We are honored and privileged to serve those referred to us. We do so with character, integrity, compassion, empathy, responsiveness and a commitment to quality.
Meet our Patient’s Needs
Err on the side of the patient and family. Treat the patient you are privileged to serve as you would treat your beloved family member.
Create a Welcoming Presence
Greet everyone every time with a smile, direct eye contact and a warm “hello”. Be present in all of your interactions. Turn on your Zoom camera.
You are the Example
Recognize and embrace that you are the example and the representative of our organization at all times, in all places and in all circumstances.
Assume Positive Intent
Work from the assumption that people are good, fair and honest. Work from the assumption that the intent behind their actions is positive and sincere. Reserve judgement. Give others the benefit of the doubt.
Make Quality Personal
Take pride in the quality of everything you touch and everything you do. Pursue excellence always. Commit to giving your best in every situation. ``Good enough is NOT good enough.``
Demonstrate Character
Be honest and truthful, demonstrate fairness with others. Be trustworthy and dependable.
Demonstrate Respect
Treat others with common courtesy, recognize individual differences, do not judge, treat others in the way they want to be treated.
Seek Continuous Improvement
Actively search for new or improved solutions to our challenges that will make us more efficient and effective in what we do and our provision of the highest quality care.
Celebrate Success
Recognize and acknowledge each other’s accomplishments, successes, and achievements. Treat each other as partners. Freely give support, cooperation, assistance, appreciation and recognition to each other.
Demonstrate Gratitude
Give thanks and appreciation to each other and those we are privileged to serve including, their actions, efforts and contributions. Say “thank you.”
Create Win-Win Scenarios
Appreciate the other perspective. Create constructive solutions and compromises that produce mutually beneficial outcomes.
Honor Commitments
Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it. Anticipate challenges and adapt to them to ensure the commitments you make are kept.
Take Ownership
Take responsibility and accountability for your actions, their consequences and impact on others. Do not make excuses.
Achieve Results
Hold yourselves and others accountable to meet expectations, commitments and obligations of ourselves and the organization you represent.
Organizational Change
Be open and willing to change your mind, your perspective, your behavior, the way you have done things in the past.
Continuous Learning
Be a lifelong learner. Utilize the best practices for your service delivery, and when none exists, learn from others be you’re your colleagues or other industries/experts/resources.
Demonstrate Professionalism
Be courteous, conscientious, ethical and respectful in all workplace interactions. Show up on time, be prepared, and respect other people’s time.
Be Responsive
Act with a sense of urgency. Acknowledge text messages, Blink messages, emails, voice mail messages – any and all communications directed to you as soon as you can, at a minimum the same day.
Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care
Honored to walk this journey with you!
Care Synergy Affiliation
Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care entered into an exciting new partnership June 2016. We became an Affiliate of Care Synergy, a not-for-profit organization created to support, sustain, empower and grow mission driven, values based not-for-profit hospice, home health and palliative care organizations providing community based care and services. Other Affiliates include The Denver Hospice (serving the nine-county metro-Denver area), Pathways Hospice (serving Larimer and Weld Counties) and most recently, Colorado Visiting Nurse Association.
Under the Care Synergy operating model, each of the four Affiliates operate as distinct and independent not-for-profit providers with their own local governance.
Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation is a separate 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation. All gifts given to Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation will remain in our community, and will continue to fortify the opportunities and growth of Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care’s programs of care.
We are honored to be one of the fine organizations comprising this innovative Affiliation model, and look forward to expanding excellence in end-of-life care with exceptional providers along Colorado’s Front Range.