The mission of HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley is to provide compassionate and dignified palliative and end of life care to patients and their families.
HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley offers services that prevent and relieve suffering, restore dignity and comfort those living with a life-limiting disease. We base our care on compassion, comfort as we recognize and honor the dignity of each person. We serve patients and their families who reside in any of the local communities in the Roaring Fork, Colorado, Crystal, and Eagle River Valleys.
We are a non-profit organization, governed by a Board of Directors who live and work in communities throughout our service area. Start-up funding for Hospice of the Valley came from Aspen Valley Hospital, the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation, and Valley View Hospital who formed Hospice of the Valley in 2008. In December 2009, Vail Valley Medical Center requested that Hospice of the Valley assume ownership of the 20-year-old Mountain Hospice program.
We believe that every life is sacred and that every individual in the last stage of life should die with dignity.
We believe everyone deserves to know and understand available options for end-of-life care.
We believe people of all ages deserve to have their grief honored and their lives celebrated.
We believe no one should live in pain.
We believe no one should die feeling alone.
We base our care on compassion and comfort as we recognize and honor the dignity of each person. Our clients are more than patients; they are our friends, family, and neighbors. To ensure quality care from trained health care professionals, we provide our staff with continuous, specialized training that goes beyond the state-mandated requirements.
501(c)(3) Non-profit Organization
Colorado Licensed Hospice
Colorado Licensed Home Health Agency
Medicare-Certified Hospice
Medicare-certified Home Health agency
Colorado licensed Private Duty Home Health agency
Our People
Sylvia Allais, RN, Executive Director
Sylvia received a Baccalaureus Degree in Nursing Science & Midwifery from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and completed graduate studies in Nursing Administration and Education at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Currently she is enrolled in her MSN in operational leadership through Quinnipiac University and is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Prior to immigrating to the United States of America, she specialized in adult and adolescent psychiatry and taught Fundamentals of Nursing, Psychology and Sociology at a nursing college affiliated with the University of Pretoria. In 1998 she was recruited to work in the United States during the national nursing shortage and after passing the US Nursing State Boards relocated to Toms River, New Jersey where she worked in a cardiac progressive care unit. After moving to Connecticut, she became a US citizen and worked in the Hospital of St. Raphael in neonatal intensive care while case managing adult and pediatric cases in home health. In 2004 she joined The Connecticut Hospice Inc. as a nurse leader and worked in different leadership capacities including Supervisor of Clinical Services, Director of Home Health, Director of Hospice, Chief Quality Officer and Vice President of Compliance.
Sylvia joined Masonicare in 2015 as the Director of Hospice & Palliative Care and was promoted to the position of Vice President of Quality in oversight of the state-wide continuum of care providing senior services in acute care, outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facilities, independent and assisted livings, home health, hospice and private duty. Through a national search, Sylvia was recruited to join HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley as the Executive Director and is in oversight of Home Health, Hospice and Private Duty.
General information: info@hchotv.org
Fundraising and events: development@hchotv.org
Human Resources: humanresources@hchotv.org
Board of Directors – 2024
Peter Guy – Chair
Jeanne Sheriff – Vice Chair
Brigitt Widmer – Secretary
Leslieann Gallagher – Treasurer
Robert Purvis
Ken Robinson
Paul Carlson
Sara Fisher
Dr. Melissa Gruen
Sylvia Allais, Executive Director
