Our Mission

Our mission is to provide Catholic home hospice care, support, and education that honors the dignity of each person we serve.

Building on our loving service in Colorado for 100 years, Dominican Home Health Agency is now Emmaus Catholic Hospice.

We are created for connection and communion, with God and one another. This truth feels more important than ever as we reflect on the realities of the pandemic and the effects of quarantine restrictions. We grieve for those who suffered in isolation and for those who died without familiar faces at their bedside or access to the sacraments.

With all this in mind, God put it on our hearts to establish Catholic home hospice care, something we wish would have existed in Denver during the height of the pandemic.

This care of the whole person—body and soul—takes place in the home, where patients and families have more freedom to be together and where so many prefer to spend their final days. Remaining authentically Catholic is essential to us so that patients and their families can trust us in their difficult seasons. We offer solid spiritual care and prioritize access to the sacraments right alongside the exceptional clinical care they need.

We are continuing what the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor started, assuring the people of Denver we serve: you are seen and heard and loved—and you still matter.

While we come to this new mission with 99 years of service to the community, we are also creating something brand new. Please pray with us and for us as we build this pro-life ministry.

With God’s grace and you by our side, we will journey with patients and their families, providing the care they deserve so that they can experience Christ’s love.

Emmaus Catholic Hospice adheres to Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). This asserts that “patients should be kept as free of pain as possible so that they may die comfortably and with dignity, and in the place where they wish to die.” It also states, “Suicide and euthanasia are never morally acceptable options.” Emmaus Catholic Hospice and its employees will not participate in physician-assisted suicide by any name, including “medical aid in dying” (MAID). The full text of the Ethical and Religious Directives can be found on the USCCB website by following this link.

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Non-Cash Giving
Emmaus Catholic Hospice can accept many types of assets, including:

Privately-held corporate stock and business interests (ownership in closely-held businesses, Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies, or Sub-chapter S & C corporations)
Restricted securities (publicly-traded securities that may have sale restrictions)
Real estate
Tangible personal property
Royalties or copyrights
Life insurance (term, whole, universal, or variable)
Loan notes (money owed to you through loan notes)
Estate gifts (proceeds from wills or trusts)
Retirement plans (401ks, IRAs, or pension plans)
Certain oil and gas interests

Emmaus Catholic Hospice works with The Catholic Foundation to accommodate non-cash gifts.

If you would like additional information about The Catholic Foundation and how to provide non-cash gifts to Emmaus Catholic Hospice,

IRA Charitable Rollover or Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)

A QCD is a distribution from an IRA which is paid directly to Emmaus Catholic Hospice after the IRA owner turns 70½. An IRA owner can make QCDs of up to $100,000 annually. If your distribution counts as a QCD, the amount is not reported as taxable income on your tax return. Amounts that exceed $100,000 or don’t fit the QCD rules are typically treated as regular distributions. QCDs are also sometimes referred to as an IRA charitable rollover.

IRA Required Minimum Distribution (RMD)

An IRA owner who has turned 72 is required to distribute a certain portion of his or her IRA every year. This is known as your RMD. If you do need the funds, donating to Emmaus Catholic Hospice is a great option.

If you would like additional information about how to provide an IRA charitable gift to Emmaus Catholic Hospice,

Retirement Plans
You may not be aware that if you name your children as the ultimate beneficiaries of your I.R.A. or Qualified Retirement Plan(s), they may only receive one-third of the total assets. By gifting all or a portion of your retirement plan(s) to a charitable organization, the full value is generally passed to the charity and may ultimately make a greater impact. The amount received by a charitable organization will be fully deductible from your estate.

Bequests
A Bequest made during your lifetime is the most common method of planned giving and enables you to distribute assets to individuals and charitable organizations in the amounts or proportions you indicate. An estate gift also provides the opportunity to make a major gift while preserving assets during a lifetime, with a reduction in federal estate taxes.

Life Insurance
A gift of Life Insurance is a simple way to make a legacy gift. You may name a charity as the beneficiary of all or a portion of a life insurance policy. A charity can also be named as the alternate or final beneficiary. At your death, all proceeds would pass immediately to the named charitable organizations. Policies originally intended to protect a spouse, child or even complete a mortgage payment may no longer be necessary. Consider how these policies may be used to help fulfill other needs or causes.

If you would like additional information about how to include Emmaus Catholic Hospice in your legacy giving,