Our Services

TRU Hospice Home Care

At TRU Hospice, we know that this is a very difficult and vulnerable time for you. Because you may have been fighting your illness for months or even years, considering hospice now may feel like a kind of surrender. Perhaps it will help you to remember that although a cure isn’t possible, there is still much you can control, and still great reason to hope for finding peace and meaning in each moment, enriching your relationships, and experiencing the end of life in a way that honors who you are and what you believe. As your focus shifts from a cure to quality of life, our goal is to help ease your burden and enable you to live every day that remains as fully as possible. Our pledge is to respect your wishes, protect your dignity and help you celebrate and complete your life at home, in comfort, surrounded by the people you love. 

When you, your loved ones, or your patients are nearing their final months and are no longer looking for a cure, TRU Hospice can provide compassionate care and expert symptom management in the familiar comfort of home, surrounded by loved ones. Our family-centered approach means we'll also guide and assist caregivers, along with offering them grief support after the loss. What's more, we'll collaborate with you to whatever degree you desire, managing your patient's pain, easing symptoms, and ensuring the very highest quality of life for all the days that remain.

Located in Boulder County and serving the counties of Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Jefferson, Weld, and beyond, TRU’s experienced staff understands the unique physical, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill people and their families and has the specialized hospice service skills to meet them. With a range of end-of-life care options, we can provide the compassionate, individualized support you need, no matter your age or type of end-stage disease. Our hospice services care is provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, wherever you live – at home, in an assisted living or skilled nursing community – or at our inpatient hospice facility, the TRU Hospice Care Center, in Longmont, CO. The sooner you contact TRU Hospice, the more we can help. Please call us at (303) 604-5272 to learn more our hospice services.

TRU Hospice Care Center

TRU Community Care has operated the only hospice inpatient unit of its kind in the area since 1999. Now located at Longmont United Hospital, the TRU Hospice Care Center offers short-term, intensive care for patients with complex medical needs. For compassionate care when it's needed most, it's the next best place to home. We specialize in:

• Around-the-clock nursing care
• State-of-the-art pain management
• Emotional and spiritual support
• Personalized volunteer attention
• Pain/symptoms requiring active interventions
• Complex wound management
• Delirium with behavioral issues
• Intractable nausea and vomiting
• Sudden decline requiring intensive nursing interventions
• Short-term respite care

More About the TRU Hospice Care Center:

• 7 private patient rooms with mountain views
• Fold-out chairs and cots available for overnight visits
• Ability for family to visit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Spacious family room with TV, games, and comfortable seating
• Private kitchen available for family use at any time
• Private counseling space
• Valet parking from 6:30am-5:30pm
• Family and visitor parking in front of main entrance
• Access to the hospital’s chapel and cafeteria

To learn more, please call us at (303) 604-5272.

TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado

TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado (HNC), based in Greeley, is our neighboring legacy hospice program serving all of Weld County and parts of Larimer County, was founded as Hospice Inc., of Weld County in 1978. TRU HNC’s experienced staff understands the unique physical, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill people and their families and has the specialized hospice service skills to meet them. With a range of end-of-life care options, HNC provides compassionate, individualized support – at home, in an assisted living or skilled nursing community.  To learn more, please call us at (970) 352-8487.

 

What to Expect

Learn more about what to expect from your hospice care team and your hospice experience.

FAQ

Read through some frequently asked questions and answers about TRU Hospice Services.

Special Programs

Learn more about TRU Community Care's special programs like our Eleventh Hour Program, our Veterans Program, and our Pediatrics Program.

If you’re living with an advanced illness but are not eligible or ready for hospice care, TRU Palliative Care may be the right option for you. The goals of our palliative program are in many ways similar to the goals of our hospice program, which are to help patients live as symptom-free as possible in the comfort of their homes, understand how to manage their disease progression, and create goals of care that allow them to live fully each day. We want to provide wrap-around support so patients and families can spend their days tending to what brings meaning and joy to their lives. The difference between hospice and palliative care is that we will enter the patient's world sooner along the care continuum. Palliative care services can be accessed at any stage of illness, regardless of life expectancy and at the same time patients are undergoing disease-modifying or curative treatments. Specialty trained palliative care providers spend time emphasizing pain and symptom management, goals of care, and education about disease progression and treatment options. We plan to utilize technology for real time virtual visits when symptoms need to be managed. We will explore and develop community partnerships to bring needed support services into the home. And when the time draws near, we will guide patients seamlessly into hospice for the expert care and support we have been providing for the past 42 years. In summary, TRU Palliative Care allows those facing the challenges of a serious disease to continue to pursue life-prolonging treatments and simultaneously receive the benefits of our expert pain and symptom management. In addition, it provides you and your family with the education, support, and guidance needed to establish your goals for care and make informed choices throughout the course of your illness. Please call us at 303.604.5272 to learn more.

TRU PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) coordinates and provides all needed preventive, primary, acute, and long-term care services so that older individuals can continue living safely in their community. TRU PACE is an innovative model that enables individuals who are 55 years old or older and certified by the state to need nursing-home-level care to live as independently as possible. TRU PACE will help participants and their family members navigate the complicated issues associated with aging. To learn more or to enroll in the TRU PACE program, call (303) 665-0115.

At TRU Community Care, we consider it a privilege to help those who are grieving regain their balance and resume healthy living. Whether you are looking for personal guidance or walking alongside someone who is, contact us to see how we can help. Extensive resources for people of all ages and stages in the grief process are available to everyone in the community and are free of charge. In addition to the wide variety of age and loss-specific grief support groups TRU offers, our experienced grief counselors are available for phone consultations or referrals, can suggest articles and other materials pertinent to your circumstances, and provide on-site support in traumatic situations. Families whose loved one received TRU’s services have the additional benefit of 13-months of one-on-one or family grief counseling. Please call us anytime for support at 303.604.5300. Visit TRU Grief Services to learn more about support groups for adults, our Healing Circles program for children and teens, registration forms, and grief support resources.

We are committed to partnering with community organizations to provide expert support and education regarding end-of-life issues. We offer a wide range of topics and can customize offerings based on needs and interests. Our presenters and counselors with extensive training and experience speak and offer support in schools, healthcare facilities, and community organizations.

Clinical Education Topics

• Pain/symptom management 101
• What to expect at end of life
• Difficult conversations at end of life
• Medical aid in dying
• Ethics 101
• Culturally competent practice
• Professional boundaries
• Communication skills
• Serving veterans at end of life
• Doc talks
• Working with challenging families
• Supporting staff moral distress

Grief Support Topics

• Facility memorials
• Community memorials
• Supporting child/teen grief
• Grief support for professional caregivers
• Grief in the workplace
• Coping with loss during the holidays

General Community Outreach Topics

• Hospice 101
• Grief 101
• Advance directives
• Caregiver stress
• Doc-to-doc talks
• Veterans
• Intimacy and illness
• PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly)

Whether you're looking for information on a specific topic, need workplace support for a difficult loss, or want us to tailor a presentation to your organization's unique needs, let us know how we can help. Here is our latest list of suggested education and outreach topics. Please contact us with your request.

Our hospice and palliative care programs enable TRU Community Care to provide the right care at the right time to your patients with advanced illness and their families. Our staff is responsive, reliable and ready to collaborate with you to whatever degree you desire and coordinate patient care in a way that is consistent with your needs. Our services are available to patients of all ages, with any type of advanced illness, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week in Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Jefferson, and Weld Counties and beyond.

TRU Physician Service Promises

We're serious about our commitment to you and your patients and have developed service promises that we honor every day with every single person we serve. Learn more »

TRU Community Care Services

With a continuum of care for people with advanced illness and their families, we can provide the expert physical and emotional support your patients need to cope with the challenges of late-stage disease. Learn more »

Assessment Guidelines

The following guidelines for end-stage diseases may indicate if a patient is eligible for TRU Hospice. However, all criteria listed need not be present for admission. Learn More »

Are You Considering a Referral?

To learn more about TRU's services, refer a patient or request a consultation from a TRU physician, contact us or call (303) 604-5272. Our referral/admissions fax number is (303) 604-5372. Please use our Online Referral Form at your convenience.

TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado

TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado (HNC), based in Greeley, is our neighboring legacy hospice program serving all of Weld County and parts of Larimer County, was founded as Hospice Inc., of Weld County in 1978. TRU HNC’s experienced staff understands the unique physical, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill people and their families and has the specialized hospice service skills to meet them. With a range of end-of-life care options, HNC provides compassionate, individualized support – at home, in an assisted living or skilled nursing community.

To learn more, please call us at (970) 352-8487.