Celebrate those you love this holiday season!

Lights of Life 2019

As we are nearing the holiday season, become part of the HopeWest tradition and honor or remember your loved ones with personalized heart ornaments or luminaries of life.

Purchase an Ornament or Dedicate a Luminary

Lights of Life Ceremony Information

As a nonprofit hospice serving our communities for more than 25 years, we are dedicated to profoundly changing the way our communities experience aging, serious illness and grief – one family at a time.

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Grief Support

For the Whole Family

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Grief’s Journey

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Wills Guide

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Recent Media

Handling the Holidays

For people who are grieving, every day can be filled with reminders of their loved ones. But the feelings of loneliness or other emotions may be amplified by holiday events and activities that once involved your loved one. Thankfully, HopeWest grief support programs...

Wedding at Artful Cup

Instead of wedding bells, one soon-to-wed couple heard coffee percolating inside their meaningful wedding venue – Artful Cup. Van and Catherine dressed for the occasion, she was wearing a navy-blue dress, and he wore a matching navy suitcoat. Van and...

How the Death of a Loved One Changes You

By Catherine Owens, Director of the Center for Hope & Healing By its nature, the grief journey is a transition: an event that asks you to change from who you were before to who you are after a loss and then to who you will be tomorrow. It can be...

How to begin your journey to Hope and Healing

By Catherine Owens, Director of the Center for Hope & Healing Many people who are grieving find themselves unsure of common reactions. Who is this person who cries unexpectedly? Why can’t I think clearly enough to remember my appointments? Am I the...

HopeWest Welcomes Hospice Physician, Dr. Mathwig

Grand Junction, CO - HopeWest is pleased to introduce Dr. Vicky Mathwig, MD, as a hospice and palliative medicine physician. Dr. Mathwig comes to HopeWest with a wealth of experience as an exceptional physician, board-certified in Family Medicine. “I’m...

Hazel Miller Concert Benefits HopeWest Africa Partnership

Rhythms for Africa, a concert benefiting HopeWest’s sister hospice in rural Tanzania, will give members in our community the opportunity to support a meaningful cause all while enjoying the musical talent of Hazel Miller, accompanied by Dana Marsh on...

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