About HopeWest
Created through a community-wide vision, HopeWest provides comprehensive, expert, and collaborative care for those facing aging, serious illness and grief. We are a nonprofit organization serving western Colorado in Mesa, Delta, Montrose, Ouray, and Rio Blanco counties.
About HopeWest
Service Areas
Mission, Vision, and Values
Leadership & Medical Team
Annual Reports
Awards & Thank Yous

About HopeWest
Created through a community-wide vision, HopeWest provides comprehensive, expert, and collaborative care for those facing aging, serious illness and grief. We are a nonprofit organization serving western Colorado in Mesa, Delta, Montrose, Ouray, and Rio Blanco counties.
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About HopeWest
About HopeWest
Created through a community-wide vision, our founders recognized the need for comprehensive, expert, and collaborative care for those facing aging, serious illness, and grief. HopeWest is a nonprofit, 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization serving western Colorado in Mesa, Delta, Montrose, Ouray, and Rio Blanco counties.
We cared for 117 patients and their families in 1993 – our first year of operation. Today, we serve more than 10,000 square miles with five offices, a state-of-the-art Care Center and the Bacon Center for Living Your Best. With a staff of 425 and more than 1,000 volunteers, we provide care to more than 2,250 patients and Participants, as well as more than 1,500 individuals coping with grief every year in the counties we serve.
We are so much more than a hospice or health care organization.
We have grown and expanded services to become a nationally respected model for creative and effective hospice and palliative care delivered in private homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted-living facilities, and our own Hospice Care Center.
Our PACE program helps seniors age well through social activities, education, and medical services.
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We provide extensive bereavement services for people of all ages. Adults receive individual counseling, grief education and group support. HopeWest Kids is the only program of its kind in western Colorado providing an extensive array of creative grief services, such as Itty Bitty Camp for preschoolers, Camp Good Grief for older children and Teen Retreats for teens, equestrian therapy, and grief support groups in all grade schools, middle schools, and high schools across the region.
We are woven into the communities we serve through our Board of Directors, Advancement Board, and Community Boards in every area where we have an office. Philanthropy is key to helping support the mission and is raised through grants, individual and corporate gifts, events and support from our retail businesses – Spoons bistro & bakery and Heirlooms for Hospice. Our unique retail outlets help to support our mission through the generosity of the communities we serve.
We’re proud of our tradition of collaboration and innovation alongside our generous communities. It’s our friends and neighbors across the Western Slope who make this type of care possible for anyone in need.
Watch the video to learn about the power of community and our history as a nonprofit organization owned by the communities we serve and defined by those who support us since 1993.
HopeWest through the years

1993
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First Patients Served

1994
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Plateau Valley Office Opens

1995
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Delta Office Opens

1996
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First Black Tie & Boots Gala

1997
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First Camp Good Grief

1997
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Palliative Care Programs Start

2000
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First Heirlooms for Hospice Store Opens

2007
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The Miller Homestead is Restored

2008
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Ferris Hospice Care Center Opens

2008
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Spoons bistro & bakery Opens

2012
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Services Expand to Meeker

2016
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Montrose Center for Hope Opens

2020
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The Bacon Center for Living Your Best Opens
HopeWest Service Areas
HopeWest serves western Colorado in Mesa, Delta, Montrose, Ouray, and Rio Blanco counties.
We have offices based in Grand Junction, Montrose, Delta, Plateau Valley, and Meeker.
Contact Your Local Office
To reach your local HopeWest office call (866) 310-8900, email info@HopeWestCO.org, or click the button below for more detailed information by area.
Mission, Vision, Values

Mission
Through creativity, volunteerism, and philanthropy, we profoundly change the experiences of aging, illness, and grief – one family at a time.

Vision
Our transformational integrated healthcare and social programs will enable every family in our communities facing the issues of aging, illness and grief to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.
HopeWest Values
Honor & Respect
We respect the dignity and worth of each person we work with and to whom we provide care and freely express our appreciation.
Openness & Curiosity
We find innovative ways to meet the needs of those facing serious illness or grief through an attitude of openness and curiosity and a commitment to constantly improve.
Personal Accountability
We maintain organizational and financial integrity through each person’s actions and accountability.
Enjoyment & Appreciation
We share our energy, laughter, generosity, compassion and inner strength and also appreciate each other and the gifts that have been shared.
Wisdom-seeking
We “seek first to understand” and assume best intent from each other. We provide opportunities for teaching and learning throughout the organization and the community.
Empathy
Each person offers an understanding presence to those we work with and to whom we provide care.
Spirit of Volunteerism, Generosity & Service
Each person offers a willingness to volunteer time and talent to preserve the culture of generosity of HopeWest and the commitment of service to others.
Teamwork with Trust
We foster trusting relationships with those we work with and serve, knowing only together can we accomplish the wholeness of caring for others.
Leadership & Medical Team
We believe the key to being a successful nonprofit is to remember HopeWest exists because of the communities we are privileged to serve. Every community is unique and we are honored to have dedicated boards that provide vision and help guide our organization.