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Enter to Win 2 Tickets to Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!

September 7, 2016 by TRU Community Care

We’re giving away a pair of tickets to our annual gala, Peace, Love & PIZZAZ! on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 6-10pm. This year’s theme is a 1970’s disco party. Come shake your groove thang with live band Soul School, enjoy a scrumptious dinner, and bid on silent auction items. Can you dig it?

Winners drawn on Wednesday, Sept. 14th at 2pm.

Peace, Love & PIZZAZ! Tickets Giveaway

Filed Under: Giveaways, PIZZAZ!, Events Tagged With: giveaways, PIZZAZ!

Guests Will ‘Boogie On Down’ at TRU Community Care’s 70s-Themed Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!

September 1, 2016 by TRU Community Care

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Contact:  Maria Thomas, Communications Coordinator, mariathomas@trucare.org

LAFAYETTE, COLORADO – More than 100 guests will get their groove on September 17 at TRU Community Care’s Peace, Love & PIZZAZ! 2016, the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser of the year. This annual gala helps raise funds for the compassionate end-of-life care and grief services that TRU provides to our local community.

Held at the Denver Marriott Westminster, guests will enjoy a silent auction, dinner, games of chance as well as a live auction. Local band Soul School will perform a variety of 70s hits sure to get people on the dance floor.

Silent auction items include several jewelry items courtesy of Snyder Jewelers, Inc., a gourmet Celestial Seasonings gift basket, gift certificates to many local area restaurants, a golf package, and an overnight stay at a local hotel including breakfast and champagne for two.

TRU Community Care is celebrating its 40th year of service to the Boulder community this year. What better way to celebrate than with a tribute to the decade that started it all? Don’t miss out on the fun!

Click here to purchase tickets now to Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!

TRU Community Care serves Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Broomfield, Erie, and beyond. TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado offers services in Greeley and extends to Weld and Larimer counties.

Additional services include grief support, which is available to anyone in the community. It is a privilege for us to help those who are grieving regain their balance and resume healthy living. Grief groups include adult, teen, and child as well as equine therapy.

At TRU Community Care, we add life to days, because that’s what TRUly matters. The sooner you call, the sooner we can help – 303.442.0961 or visit trucare.org


Maria Thomas, Communications CoordinatorAbout the Author

Maria Thomas is the Communications Coordinator for TRU Community Care and TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado. She is a lover of the written word and also is a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT). With over 15 years’ experience in the health care field, Maria has worked as a medical editor and as managing editor at National Jewish Health in Denver.

Filed Under: Press Releases, 40th Anniversary, PIZZAZ! Tagged With: events, PIZZAZ!, fundraiser

TRU Hospice Thrift Shop Promotes Zero Waste With Eco-Cycle

August 23, 2016 by TRU Community Care

Eco-Cycle & TRU Community Care partner on T-shirtsLast week, Mel Gilles of Eco-Cycle pulled into the parking lot of TRU Hospice Thrift Shop eager to pick up not the first, but the second large donation of boxes containing used T-shirts. Why so many shirts, you ask? Eco-Cycle is celebrating its 40th birthday this year, and as part of the celebration they are printing shirts with their logo and other messaging. Rather than purchase brand new shirts, Eco-Cycle reached out to TRU Hospice Thrift Shop Manager Lynn McCullough to see if there was an opportunity to partner and rescue used items before they hit the landfill. As luck would have it, there was!

Both Eco-Cycle and TRU Community Care are celebrating their 40th anniversaries this year. You can get in on the fun by purchasing tickets to TRU’s annual gala, Peace, Love & PIZZAZ! This year is a 70s-themed disco party!

The thrift shop has donated a total of 400 shirts to Eco-Cycle over the summer. First, at Eco-Cycle’s birthday bash, and now for their upcoming event in September. We’re thrilled to be partnering with such a great organization that is committed to reducing waste in our environment. Bonus? They’re located just right down the street from our thrift shop on Arapahoe Road. We’ve seen Mel sneak in to shop several times during the week. 😉

TRU Hospice Thrift Shop

Mel from Eco-Cycle (left) with Lynn, TRU Hospice Thrift Store Manager (right) with the T-shirt donations.

TRU Hospice Thrift Shop truck

The TRU Hospice Thrift Shop truck. Got donations? We’ll pick them up!


About the Author

Maria Thomas, Communications CoordinatorMaria Thomas is the Communications Coordinator for TRU Community Care and TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado. She is a lover of the written word and also is a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT). With over 15 years’ experience in the health care field, Maria has worked as a medical editor and as managing editor at National Jewish Health in Denver.

Filed Under: Community, Thrift Store, PIZZAZ!, News, 40th Anniversary, Giving

Get ready for Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!

March 28, 2016 by TRU Community Care

To quote Elvis Costello: “Each time I feel like this inside, there’s one thing I wanna know … Are you ready for Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!?”

OK, so maybe the lyrics didn’t go quite like that, but you should definitely mark your calendars for this year’s annual fundraising gala, PIZZAZ! Our theme for the Sept. 17 shindig is Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!, so get your best ’70s duds out for the occasion. More info will be on its way here, but here are the details so far:

What: PIZZAZ!, TRU’s annual fundraising gala
When: Saturday, September 17 at 6 p.m.
Where: Marriott Westminster, 7000 Church Ranch Blvd, Westminster, CO 80021
How much: $150 per person
Volunteers needed! Do you want to help plan our gala? Please contact Jessica Sharley at jessicasharley@trucare.org or 303.604.5389 to learn how you can help.

 

Filed Under: PIZZAZ!, Events, Community Tagged With: hospice, 1970s, PIZZAZ!, gala, fundraiser

TRU Community Care Celebrates Four Decades of Service

February 16, 2016 by TRU Community Care

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LAFAYETTE, COLORADO – In 2016, TRU Community Care, founded in 1976 as the first Colorado hospice, is celebrating a major milestone.
This year marks the hospice service’s 40th anniversary, meaning that the nonprofit has been caring for those who are dying and their families for four decades. In celebration, TRU is planning two exciting 40th anniversary events throughout the year and sharing part of its history with the hospice community. June 26 will bring a 40th celebration party and groundbreaking for a new elder care and grief services facility, and TRU’s annual fundraiser, PIZZAZ!, will cap off the milestone with style on Sept. 17.

The Pioneers of the Early Years
TRU Community Care began as Boulder County Hospice in 1976, when one of the organization’s founders was asked, “Have you ever thought about starting a hospice?”
The question was posed to Beau Bohart Rezendes, who was finishing her Ph.D. dissertation on death and dying when she asked Dr. Darvin Smith what he thought could be done to help people who were dying or aged.  His thought-provoking response was the beacon that pointed the way for Bohart Rezendes. Before long, she was talking to anyone who would listen about starting a hospice in Boulder County.
Among those she approached were Kathryn Riddle-Oakes (then called Kitty Riddle), a well-known community organizer with vast experience in volunteer activities; Dr. Alan Snyder, an internist/oncologist at the Boulder Medical Center; and Karin Sobeck, who had just completed her master’s degree in mental health nursing and was holding workshops on death and dying across the country. Along with Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, a respected psychiatric nurse who was involved in grief-related work, this team of professionals added their talents and energy to the quest to bring hospice care to Boulder County.
“I think all of us came with the vision that there were better ways to care for people who were dying and grieving and that there were clear gaps in services,” said Lattanzi-Licht.

Taking the Next Steps with Hospice
Filling those gaps would prove to be a challenging mission. In the beginning, the group met in living rooms. They stored donations in a cigar box. They paid their own way to hospice care conferences on pain management. Despite such humble beginnings, they never wavered in their steadfast commitment to the cause, and by early 1977, Boulder County Hospice incorporated as a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. Not surprisingly, its all-volunteer management team was comprised of the dedicated professionals who have come to be known as the nonprofit’s founders as well.
The organization’s first patient received hospice care in June of 1977. And thanks to one provocative question and five remarkable visionaries, the organization has grown to become TRU Community Care, offering hospice, palliative care, grief services, and soon TRU PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly.) PACE represents an opportunity to create a broader continuum of care for frail elders in Boulder and southwest Weld Counties in northern Colorado. The opening of the PACE site, which also will house TRU Hospice Grief Support, will be a chance to celebrate with the local community the years of service TRU has provided.
As TRU Community Care’s visionary founders look back on the organization’s past and to its future, they all agree – a dream has been fulfilled.

Filed Under: 40th Anniversary, News, PIZZAZ!, Events, Community

Fall Newsletter 2015

November 17, 2015 by TRU Community Care

Grief services rocks Our Fall Newsletter has arrived & is available to download and share.  Click the link below to read all of our news, updates, and volunteer spotlight:

TRU Newsletter Fall 2015

To read past newsletters, reports, and interviews, click here.

Filed Under: News, Newsletter, PIZZAZ!, Events, Community

PIZZAZ! 2014 Photos Are Here!

December 23, 2014 by TRU Community Care

Dianne at PIZZAZ 2014 Great news!! The pictures from PIZZAZ! 2014 TRU Speakeasy are here and available for you. You can access them through the online gallery Snapfish. Click the link below to see the fun times had at the event this year!

PIZZAZ! 2014 TRU Speakeasy Photos

You will need to create an account with Snapfish in order to view the photos, but the account is free. If you have any questions about the PIZZAZ! pictures, please email jessicasharley@trucare.org.

Filed Under: Events, TRU Speakeasy, PIZZAZ!

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TRU Community Care (TRU) affirms life at every step of your journey with illness and loss. Our vision is to lead a healthcare transformation by engaging with our communities and offering innovative, meaningful care for those living with illness and loss.

Founded as Boulder Hospice in 1976, TRU is a Colorado-licensed, Medicare and Medicaid-certified, nonprofit health care organization serving Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Jefferson, Arapahoe, Denver, and Weld Counties and beyond. With a focus on providing a continuum of care for members of our community living with advanced illness and loss, TRU’s programs include TRU Hospice, TRU PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), TRU Palliative Care, Landmark Memory Care, and TRU Grief Services.

TRU Hospice is proudly accredited by The Joint Commission and is a five-star-level hospice in NHPCO's We Honor Veterans program created in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). TRU is a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE), and the National PACE Association (NPA).

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