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The Hospice of Saint John began caring for patients in 1977 as the second Hospice Program in the United States and the first in Colorado. Since then, the Hospice of Saint John has provided end of life care to over 25,000 patients and their families.
Our hospice patients receive the highest quality nursing services, pain management, comfort care, spiritual care, social services, complimentary therapies and bereavement support. Our patients are at the center of the plan of care, which is individually designed by a team of expert caregivers, committed to the mission of the Hospice of Saint John: to provide alternative, supportive and loving care for the terminally ill and their families, with an emphasis on life and living.
The Hospice of Saint John program is modeled in the tradition of care originated in 1048 by the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Their charge was to care for the sick and dying. The Hospice of Saint John continues in this tradition today.
The concept of end of life care, revitalized in the seventies by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, was recognized by Father Paul von Lobkowitz O.S.J. and a group of prominent members of Denver’s community as an opportunity to restore the mission originated in 1048. Part of this mission has been to treat patients and families as a single unit and develop plans for care that facilitate life and living. Today patients, families and the community are afforded the benefits of a long standing tradition of care that is also recognized for original thinking.
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