Colorado Springs Senior AdvisorSee Medicare's record for each agency: Medicare quality scores for all 10 hospices in Colorado Springs.
What does hospice provide in Colorado Springs?
A team of nurses, aides, a social worker, a chaplain and volunteers that manages pain and symptoms and supports the family, for someone with a life expectancy of about six months or less who chooses comfort care.
CDPHE lists 15 hospices with offices in El Paso and Teller counties, and Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care holds 12 licensed inpatient beds.
Who pays for hospice in Colorado Springs?
Medicare's hospice benefit covers the hospice team, medications and equipment related to the terminal illness with little or no cost; Health First Colorado and most private insurance also cover hospice.
Hospice does not pay room and board in assisted living or a nursing home.
How do we choose a hospice?
Ask how quickly a nurse comes at night and on weekends, how often aides visit, where inpatient care is provided, and what bereavement support the family gets.
You can change hospices if the first one is not working.
Where is hospice licensed across El Paso and Teller counties?
This is how CDPHE's license data spreads hospice across El Paso and Teller counties.
| County | Licenses | Inpatient beds |
|---|---|---|
| El Paso County | 15 | 12 |
| Teller County | 0 | 0 |
Is there an inpatient hospice unit in Colorado Springs?
Yes: Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care's location on Tenderfoot Hill holds licensed inpatient beds on CDPHE's list, used for symptoms that cannot be managed at home and for respite.
Other hospices arrange inpatient care in hospitals or nursing homes; ask each one where it would send your parent.
Which hospices have offices in Colorado Springs?
CDPHE lists 15 hospices with Colorado Springs offices, 9 of them coded as Medicare-certified and the rest licensed by the state only; only a Medicare-certified hospice can bill the Medicare hospice benefit.
- AHC Home Health & Hospice of Colorado Springs: Medicare-certified
- Abode Hospice of Colorado: Medicare-certified
- Brighton Hospice Colorado Springs: Medicare-certified
- Bristol Hospice - Colorado Springs: state license only
- Choice Hospice: state license only
- Colorado Palliative & Hospice Care of Colorado Springs: Medicare-certified
- Compassus - Greater Colorado Springs: Medicare-certified
- Enhabit Hospice: Medicare-certified
- Eventide Hospice: state license only
- Gentiva I: Medicare-certified
- Hope & Faith Hospice Care: state license only
- Mountain Ridge Hospice: Medicare-certified
- Nobel Hospice Care: state license only
- Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care: Medicare-certified, 12 inpatient beds
- Za Hospice: state license only
Side by side
| Hospice in Colorado is | Hospice in Colorado is not | |
|---|---|---|
| Who | Life expectancy of about six months or less | Only the final days |
| Where | Home, assisted living, nursing home or an inpatient unit | Only a hospital |
| Medicare | Pays the team, drugs and equipment | Pays room and board |
