The mission of TRU Community Care (TRU) is affirming life at every step of your journey with illness and loss. Guided by our vision, TRU is leading a healthcare transformation by engaging with our communities and offering innovative, meaningful care for those living with illness and loss. TRU strives to ensure that everyone in our community can live with advanced illness as safely, comfortably, confidently, and fully as possible. TRU is committed to serving all seniors, including all low-income seniors throughout Boulder County and beyond who are living with complex illnesses or have experienced the loss of a loved one. TRU Community Care, Colorado’s first hospice, was founded in 1976, and during its inaugural year served 15 patients. Over the years, expanding to a multi-service organization, TRU now provides hospice care, palliative care, TRU PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) grief services, and memory care. In 2023, TRU provided services across all platforms to over 4,500 patients. TRU Hospice provides specialized care for individuals with advanced illnesses whose focus is shifting from curative treatment to comfort and quality of life. TRU provides medical, emotional, and spiritual support through compassionate care and pain management. Hospice care takes place wherever a patient calls home – a private residence, an assisted living facility, a skilled nursing center, homeless shelters, or at TRU’s inpatient hospice facility, the TRU Hospice Care Center, which offers short-term, intensive care for patients with complex medical needs. TRU’s team includes physicians, nurses, chaplains, certified nursing assistants, social workers, and specially trained volunteers who collaborate and work closely with the patient and family to provide support tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes. TRU pledges to honor our patients’ wishes and respect every individual’s right to die pain-free and with dignity. One of the many things that makes TRU unique is our inclusion of our indigent population, often homeless. Referrals come to us from hospitals as many unhoused individuals use the emergency room for their primary care. We meet our patients wherever we can. The goal of supporting this particular demographic is to provide the medical care and comfort necessary, preventing critical or costly emergency room visits. TRU also provides grief services for family members or caregivers, for up to 13 months, after the loss of a loved one. TRU’s grief services are provided to anyone in the community struggling with loss, even if their loved one did not receive TRU services.
It is a state requirement that anyone admitted to our TRU PACE center be a Medicaid recipient, indicating financial need. Nearly 30% of our patients and their families, across all of our service platforms, are Longmont residents.