Causes: In-Home Assistance

Mission: Rocky Mountain Health Care Services provides a continuum of health care services to the elderly, blind, and disabled; the brain injured; and persons living with diabetes and AIDS. We are committed to giving our clients the opportunity to live at their highest level of independence and health, through teaching, brokering, and the provision of needed health care resources.

Results: Rocky Mountain Health Care Services has been helping disabled people live in the community, and stay out of nursing homes, for over 38 years. We are responsible with the resources we have been given, and donations go directly to the programs that serve our clients.

Target demographics: frail elderly with chronic care needs and adults with brain injuries

Direct beneficiaries per year: 202 seniors at risk for nursing home placement and 89 adults with brain injury who needed rehabilitation services to remain living in the community and not in a nursing home.

Geographic areas served: Colorado Springs, CO

Programs: Rocky Mountain PACE--Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly; BrainCare; and HealthRide.